10 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 31 Oct \ parent \ on: How Intellectual Property Laws Stifle Innovation Politics_And_Law
Yeah, the steam engine is invented towards the beginning of the 1700's, as I recall, and it doesn't make a serious economic impact until almost the end of that century.
It's actually shocking how absent any evidence is to support IP.
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90 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 31 Oct
Kinsalla attacks the IP situation every time he writes something. I believe he is a patent lawyer, too. He has a lot of good examples of stifling innovation. Innovation is also stifled by the narridigm. Did you know Einstein was a patent office clerk? He had several patents to his name, how do you think he got them? Working in the office, several disparate patents. Ahh……. Yes.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 31 Oct
I'm a big Kinsella fan. He's probably my favorite Austrian school thinker, too bad he doesn't do it full time.
I knew about Einstein working in a patent office, but I didn't know he was a patent poacher.
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9 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 31 Oct
Yes, he poached quite a few. That is what made him independently wealthy and able to do his theory.
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