I hadn't heard about that. I'm surprised they would be against protecting IP. Centuries ago most value was in people doing work. Then the value was in people running machines and animals doing the work. We knew what work to do too b/c there wasn't enough good food, clothing, etc. Now we can easily produce those things. More and more all the value is in entrepreneurs figuring out what to produce, and when we produce value it's usually in the form of IP.

I still love the quote.

What about their agenda against patents. It is an agenda divorced from truth.

"The Cato Institute has an unusual political cause — which is no political cause whatsoever. We are here tonight to dedicate ourselves to that cause, to dedicate ourselves, in other words, to … nothing.

We have no ideology, no agenda, no catechism, no dialectic, no plan for humanity.
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All we have is the belief that people should do what people want to do, unless it causes harm to other people. And that had better be clear and provable harm. No nonsense about second-hand smoke or hurtful, insensitive language, please."

Yes!

It's even more true today after 22 more years of BS business as usual in the Dark Center.

Pretty good argument.