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Re:How Much Does Education Improve Intelligence? A Meta-Anal... by ZeroGravitas on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:11AM (#29540886)
Let's be factual, she married into the MLM family riches. Her own family was super rich because of a patent which is a totally different scheme where you skim some wealth of lots of other people's work without really contributing anything to society.
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Re:How Much Does Education Improve Intelligence? A Meta-Anal... by vlovich123 on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:31PM (#29541890)
That seems like an ungenerous characterization of patents. There are issues with them but I wouldn’t say that it’s primarily a mechanism to skim some wealth of lots of other people’s work.
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Re:How Much Does Education Improve Intelligence? A Meta-Anal... by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @07:44AM (#29550970)
That's literally the original historical purpose, and some would argue still effectively is, but yeah patents have a great PR team.
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