Comment by sneak
6 years ago
The patent system is just a mechanism that uses the threat of state violence to prop up the idea that an idea is property that can be owned. This concept is false, and the sooner people abandon that model the better off we will all be. The state can’t use the threat of violence to make pi equal to 3, to make a public domain codec a “google invention”, nor to deed title to the number two. Remember, parents are just an industrial incentive mechanism propped up by cops, nothing more.
You could say the same thing about any form of property.
No, only about Imaginary Property.
No, it is literally true that the threat of state violence is what props up the ability to own any property.
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