Martin Shkreli: The ‘Most Hated Man in America’ Is Raising the Price of Another Form of Drug
14th December 2015
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This merely underscores the stupidity of the whole concept of ‘intellectual property’, which is ‘property’ only because the government has created an artificial monopoly in certain discoveries.
(Reminder for the dimwitted: Property is something where, if person A has it, then person B doesn’t. Knowledge isn’t property, because if you’ve got it, nothing prevents me from having it, too.)
The problem comes when governments, under political pressure, arbitrarily invade this so-called ‘property right’ and so create a climate in which they can as readily invade true property rights.