• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If the US patent system is just, then should we pay reparations to Native Americans and black people?

    Of course not. They rank way below Chinese people.

    Chinese companies could just buy the parents here and be the “inventors” of.

    They already do. That’s a big part of the “stealing” accusations aimed at the Chinese. They trade access to domestic capital for foreign patents, and Americans claim this is a form of theft.

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      3 months ago

      So is it stealing when Google buys the patents from small inventors and says it’s theirs?

      Was it stealing when Thomas Jefferson stole his slave’s ice cream recipe and said it was his? Should the Hemmings family be given compensation?

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        So is it stealing when Google buys the patents from small inventors and says it’s theirs?

        No. It’s monopolization.

        Was it stealing when Thomas Jefferson stole his slave’s ice cream recipe and said it was his?

        No. It’s slavery.