> But what you are describing is communistic in a way i.e. I am entitled to copy your design exactly.
no what I am describing is essentially Kinsella/Rothbard/Hayek laissez faire free markets - information is a non-rivalrous good.
If I have your patented toilet seat system, I have the information, you can’t stop me from having the information if I have the thing, you can only erect artificial legal barriers which require UNIVERSAL enforcement of me not using the information because as soon as that information enters a jurisdiction that doesnt have your artificial legal edifice, your illusion has crumbled.
Now you can dominate your IP protected market and maybe your toilet seat is truly novel and better than incumbent toilet seats, meanwhile the Chinese have upgraded it with movement sensors, washer, massage, dryer, lighting, personal profiles automatically set by weight on the seat, music, auto flushing and and and..
Literally something as banal as a toilet seat is way better in Asia than in the west because they’re not being held up by IP and can actually iterate and innovate whereas western markets are held back by rent-seekers arguing the new version is too similar to the old and so they need royalty payments from the entrepreneur who can’t afford to fight it..
Your argument is for a rent-seeker to be a philanthropist; now you’ve all got caveman toilet seats and one town benefitted from one man’s generosity.
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2026-04-13 16:00:11 UTC
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