Comments by "Matthew Loutner" (@Matthew_Loutner) on "Detroit auto engineers tear down BYD's Seagull: "An extinction-level event"" video.

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  21. @DW-op7ly  If I am right about something, why should I be less biased? I am an inventor. So let me explain how inventions and patents work: In the old days, there were no patents. When somebody had a good idea, everybody just copied it and everybody was happy doing it that way. Even today, an invention can go directly into the public domain if the inventor does not patent his invention. I personally have an invention that I did not patent and everyone has copied it and you can buy it in many stores. I do not get any residuals from my invention, and if you use my invention, I am happy for you. This has been the way of the world for thousands of years. But in the last hundred years or so, thought on patenting has evolved. Specifically, what has evolved is the COST of inventing something. When life was simple, the cost of inventing was small. But the type of inventions that we have in the high-tech modern world can cost a million dollars of research. The cost of the research is why we have patents. If a company spends a million dollars in research, they need some way to recover that money back. The company recovers their money by having the exclusive right to produce and sell their invention for several years. If you short-cicuit the protection process, that company cannot recover their million dollars. If you continue short-circuiting the protection process, that company will go bankrupt and shut down. Any inventions they would have invented in the future will never come into the Earth. If you do that to enough different high-tech-companies, they will all shut down. That will end scientific progress as we know it.
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