Who starts corporations? Who hires lawyers to try to protect intellectual proprty rights? It all starts with one or a few people exercising free will. To take a more common example than Bill Gates and friends, something as seemingly "non-corporate" as Pi-Hole has become a private corporation and "owns" a trademark. Regardless of reasons, it is what it is -- individuals poised to enforce "rights" against, to block, others. The "delusion" is quite contagious. Not disagreeing with the comment, just pointing out that these problems emanate from wilful participation in the delusion by individual persons.