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0 pointsTylerE3y ago0 comments

It would kill research. Why pay for R&D when a gazillion other companies will instantly clone it?

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And yet the list of the most important inventions there are no inventions created by companies. All tax funded.

Corporations R&D is great at one thing, making things cheaper to produce and thus more widely available. And that's wonderful. But actually we want corporations to steal that tech from each other because then the consumer benefits the most.

TylerEOP3y ago

What about a simple basic item like Velcro? Or the printing press? Or the copier? Telegraph?

Your claim is… simply utterly untrue.

scotty793y ago

I exaggerated a bit but none of your examples are from corporate R&D.

Those inventions were mostly self funded by individual inventors who in some cases had a great trouble getting the business interested in the invention at all.

Also how does velcro compare against LED, laser or microchip in terms of importance?

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scotty793y ago

And yet the list of the most important inventions there are no inventions created by companies. All tax funded.

TylerEOP3y ago

What about a simple basic item like Velcro? Or the printing press? Or the copier? Telegraph?

Your claim is… simply utterly untrue.

scotty793y ago

I exaggerated a bit but none of your examples are from corporate R&D.

Those inventions were mostly self funded by individual inventors who in some cases had a great trouble getting the business interested in the invention at all.

Also how does velcro compare against LED, laser or microchip in terms of importance?

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