[andreilys]

IP rights != communism.

I believe in property rights, but patenting ideas leads to such perverse incentives that the benefits rarely outweigh the cost. Often times the person isn't even the first to come up with the idea! They're just the first to patent it.

Look at the field of psychedelics for example, where there's a mad scramble to patent things as absurd as the process of administering the psychedelic.