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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Correct. Patents and copyrights are state granted monopolies that are in direct opposition to free market forces that capitalism thrives on.

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Free market? As in, competition between different enterprises? And what do you think happens when one company "wins" that competition? It will use that power to establish a monopoly (or a cartel with a couple buddy companies). Both "free market" and "private monopoly" are capitalist fenomena, just at different stages of development of industry.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Sure, everyone should work for free except you, of course.

Patents only last 15 years. why isn't the government making insulin.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

as a citizen of a country whose government (-owned company) makes insulin, this reads weird to me

Your affection for patents does not disprove my original statement.