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I have no conclusive answer for that. The simple fact is, we don't know what would happen, if IP rights were to be abolished. However, I maintain that without IP the businesses would have more money to spend on R&D and less on expensive law-suits, maybe businesses would innovate at a faster rate to keep up with the competition, maybe innovations would be improved upon by other businesses creating an upward spiral of innovation. Nevertheless we don't know, just as we didn't know how the cotton was supposed to be picked when slavery was abolished.
But what is the point of R&D if your competitors can legally take advantage of It? At that point you are wasting money to give your competitors an edge and, since IP doesn't exist, you no longer have any ability to protect your R&D investment. Innovation requires some form of intellectual protection in order to ensure that the creator's are compensated for the time and resources expended in said innovation.
Also, we did actually know how cotton would be picked without slavery. It was just cheaper to have slaves do it.
However now we have the problem of how the research even made it to a third party. Most people working R&D or working with sensitive information often sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement, which means that giving away these trade secrets to other companies can result in a lawsuit for the signee and the amount of reputational as well as monetary damage they would face would presumably be very high.
And no, slavery is actually more expensive than hiring people, when taking into account the upkeep for slaves and their relatively high prices.
Yo guys, join this please.
Here Ian a link to a new RP I just made: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=446624
Kaitani, you ok?
What?
What?
Ok so the Scramble RP has come to a bit of a standstill, Rannoria if you could get the trafficking thing going maybe that can bolster activity OR we can institute a jump in time by a year or so?
When did I do that?
Maybe. I’ve been busy with other things in my life rn
Ok, whenever you find time we’ll figure it out
Manticore, Aydinir? Any input?
1 day 11 hours ago, to my post. I unsupressed it 23 hours ago. Max Barry really needs to add a confirmation dialogue for surpression.
Lol oops
Well you got any ideas?
I'm gonna be in comm blackout for the next 2 weeks. AT at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas.
Oh wow good luck man
Well I guess we could inflame relations between the natives and the colonists
Haha Carinians got you covered there
I might be able to get on the RMB every now and again but beyond that I'll be offline until the 29th.
Ok
i might consider it
Also remember Monday (tomorrow/today) is the cutoff date for the bidding, and once a host is decided, the games will start regardless.
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