The State's Responsibility for Innovation

The state is actually responsible for more innovation than the market is. All of the tech that sort of runs your smartphone or whatever, you usually love to hold up as this, like, ooh, look at the wonders of the market. Like none of, none of it really is private. The penicillin creator refused to patent it because he thought medicine was a shared heritage of humanity and it's unprincipled to profit off an invention.