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To continue your point, here is my proposal to replace intellectual property: Pay the inventor for their work, not the result of that work.

This has several advantages:

1. Inventors get paid to fail. Failure is a critical step in the process of invention.

2. Inventors get paid immediately. How can an inventor be expected to have time to invent something if their only means of income happens after the work of invention? Any person who is working should earn a living.

3. An inventor can quit. If you aren't getting anywhere on a project, then you can go do something else!

4. Another inventor can pick up where they left off. Fresh eyes bring new perspective.



You're proposing that the state pay a good wage to anyone who chooses to be a full time inventor, regardless of the results? Does that include paying for whatever facilities might be required?


Who said anything about the state?

All of these things are already paid for. Either that continues to happen, or invention just stops happening altogether. Obviously there is profit to be made from new ideas, so there should be plenty of incentive to invest in inventors.

Inventors could also collaborate and unionize. Many already do.


>Who said anything about the state?

By implication, you:

>here is my proposal to replace intellectual property

Property rights, intellectual or otherwise, are granted and enforced by the state. So too, it would seem, might be their replacements. But it sounds like you're actually proposing simply eliminating all current IP law rather than replacing it with anything.


My proposal, taken literally is to eliminate all IP law, and to not replace it with anything.

My proposal, taken in context is to meet the same needs that IP intended to meet, but without any state involvement.




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