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Intellectual property protects smaller innovators from larger companies. Imagine if you developed a novel process for solving a problem much cheaper than current methods. Now imagine if you started making some serious money doing this, and it starts to make some noise. What's to stop Amazon from just copying your process, and making it better/cheaper? They have the money to completely down you out.
Without Intellectual Property upkeep rights, any megacorp will just copy your idea and sell it for less at a broader scale, and cut you out of the market.
Indeed.
Obviously, then, megacorps should be abolished.
we should just destroy all the megacorps why going after ip
That happens now anyway with corpos who operate in countries that don't respect IP law, or those that are so big they can just lawyerfuck the creator. It's really just a form of security through trust and social contract. It doesn't truly protect the creator.