The comment to which I responded seemed to take the view that spending a bunch of money on discovering or inventing something should more-or-less be automatically rewarded with at least a portion of the "intellectual property" rights. That's the concept I wanted to rebut.

I don't have facts at hand, but I imagine that like any other thing (starting a business, writing a book, creating an App) 99.9% of patents result in no monetary gain whatsoever. But if we're going to go all in on the property aspects of patents, then I think that morally and ethically, we have to give an independent inventor a share of the property. Anything else just looks arbitrary, and leads to disrespect of patents, "intellectual property" and The Law in general.