Any recommendations I make regarding patents should be taken as just a rough mold to work into shape. As covered last time, before any meaningful change can be done to patents themselves we likely would have to first reverse the damage done by the Supreme Court with their pro-corporate jurisprudence over the years. In particular [...]
Continue reading about Innovation: Indulgence or Philanthropy – Part 5
This series has revolved around the quote “innovation without protection is philanthropy.” Does philanthropy best disseminate innovations that people want to copy, or does preventing the natural tendency of humans to copy good ideas serve as a market stimulus for innovations by appealing to “natural” greed?
Innovations happen independently of corporations and neither corporations nor government [...]
Continue reading about Innovation: Indulgence or Philanthropy – Part 4
What started this series is a quote in a NYT article stating “Innovation without protection is philanthropy.” If you take government out of the equation there could be no protections for innovations. Of course, if you take government protections out of the equation corporations could not exist, unlike proprietors who could. To determine whether government [...]
Continue reading about Innovation: Indulgence or Philanthropy – Part 3
The first thing to consider in regards to whether innovation is best indulged by government or used for philanthropy would be whether anyone would even consider philanthropy. After all, we are constantly led to belief by laissez faire economists and corporate media that markets are run on self-interest. Corporations strive to create the impression [...]
Continue reading about Innovation: Indulgence or Philanthropy – Part 2
A recent NYT article reported on a business partnership formed around innovative technology going sour. The story line is familiar. A partnership of business interests is formed, partly because it makes sense, and partly to get around some tax issues. One of the partners is a “small guy” that innovates, the other partner is a [...]
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Perhaps I should not be commenting on health care reform at this point, since I do not dissect the various proposals, including the current legislation. Here’s the problem: no health care reform will be close to ideal at this point. Like most things in our increasing paternalistic society the ideal to my mind would involve [...]
Last week I posted my responses to three questions asked by the editor of a business magazine put out by the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia (the country). Here is my response to her final question.
(4) Is there such a thing as the mentality of the middle class? There is the idea that the [...]
Continue reading about What Is the Mental Class Mentality? – Final Question from Investor.ge
Here is the third question posed to me by the editor of the business magazine Investor.ge, put out by the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia.
(3) Why is it (the middle class) important? Can we say it is more important economically than socially or does it play an important role in both spheres? What is [...]
Continue reading about Is the Middle Class a Cause or Effect?
I recently got a request for an interview by the editor of a business magazine, Investor.ge. The magazine is produced by the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia (the country). For those aware of recent events on The Middle Class Forum this is quite ironic. There is a recent commenter out there rolling his eyes [...]
Continue reading about What Is the Middle Class? – A Question from Investor.ge
We pride ourselves on our entreprenurial spirit, and we have data that indicates we engage in start-ups constantly. In truth, starting a business as a proprietor is much easier than starting a corporation. It is naturally much easier, of course, and government provides some infrastucture and incentives to assist the start-up of proprietors further.
Yet staying [...]
