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by CWuestefeld 1582 days ago
False choice fallacies aren't helpful. Incentives change behavior at the margins. So if there were no patents, we'd like have fewer drugs.
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Yes I know, that's why I replied to:

>but little to copy, therefore companies would stop doing research altogether.

It's much more likely these companies would find a different incentives / business models.