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I was irritated and fell back upon the Socratic method, it's condescending, I'm sorry. It may be that dismantling IP would have the effects you describe. But I would argue that this is not necessarily an argument against IP, it could also be an argument against the current architecture of our economic systems. We need to design them in such a way that these kinds of fundamental conflicts either don't arise or find themselves balanced appropriately. I was saying that maybe rather than throwing out a good idea because it does not fit into the current paradigm, we should address the paradigm itself. We probably do not know enough about large scale complex systems to address this issue appropriately, but we should begin the dialog and arguments like this are too narrow in scope.