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The rest of the world using the invention does not diminish its utility to the country that invented it.



It diminishes how much money the country that invented it can make.


I think the problem is that we're thinking about everything in terms of money. The primary purpose of publicly subsidized innovations should be to make life easier and better, not to earn money for the government. We have taxes for the latter.




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