• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Or are you saying the West should give all Arabic people the money

    That’s sort of been our policy with the Petro-dollar since the 1950s. But, tbh, we shouldn’t just stop at hospitals. Since our numeral set is Arabic and modern mathematics is routed in Al-Jabr: The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing…

    Do you think America’s patent system is just?

    Absolutely. Here, let me dig through my PLEX server, I’ve got thousands of hours of legally acquired videos and pdfs arguing this very point.

    Do you think the inventors of Crispr Gene Editing have more rights to this bone marrow transplant cure for HIV than the actual people who thought of it and implemented it?

    The people of China should pay the patent holders of the modern iterations of Penicillin, Insulin, and Hormonal Contraception eleventy zillion dollars forever an into perpetuity or voluntarily choose to fuck off and die. Otherwise, I’ll call them thieves and make farting sounds in their general direction.

    This, I believe, is what the original pioneers of these medications would have wanted. Same goes for any kind of treatment for current and future epidemics. If an American thought of something first, Chinese people aren’t allowed to have it. And if a Chinese person thought of it first, no they didn’t, they’re not smart enough.

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      3 months ago

      You missed one of my questions

      If the US patent system is just, then should we pay reparations to Native Americans and black people?

      If the US patent system is just, then Chinese companies could just buy the parents here and be the “inventors” of. Is that just to you? Is it just when Google does it?

      if a Chinese person thought of it first, no they didn’t, they’re not smart enough. Yeah exactly, you’re bigoted

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          3 months ago

          So is it stealing when Google buys the patents from small inventors and says it’s theirs?

          Was it stealing when Thomas Jefferson stole his slave’s ice cream recipe and said it was his? Should the Hemmings family be given compensation?

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            3 months ago

            So is it stealing when Google buys the patents from small inventors and says it’s theirs?

            No. It’s monopolization.

            Was it stealing when Thomas Jefferson stole his slave’s ice cream recipe and said it was his?

            No. It’s slavery.