The Idea Behind Patents and Inventions

The idea behind something like a patent or IP is that you should be able to quantify this idea to some degree and then protect it. It's much more technical in a lot of the senses than people think but it's also very often patents are not reduced to use and not actually being used in the real world. So there's a level of arbitrariness to it that I think, you know, is part of the critique because ultimately what we're seeing in the relationship between intellectual property rights and social and economic life is it has become sort of gamified by major actors who have the resources to engage in this game.