Saturday, April 6, 2013

90 Million Not Working

One reason USA has 90 million people not working is that USA has some 30,000 patent attorneys who are working.


The patent act, the culmination of more than a decade of negotiations and lobbying, is putting a high premium on the best patent lawyers, Mr. Showalter said.
“It’s an exceedingly complex law now with a number of new procedures,” he said. “That puts a premium on highly technical-skilled patent lawyers.”

We all love a system that makes money for us.  When that system proves to be counterproductive, reform is indicated.  In 2011, the Patent Regime was rearranged, and as the article points out, no surprise, the situation is worse.  When the fox remodels the henhouse, well...

 Whatever the unemployment number is, it is big.  Given that there are some 350 million people total in this country, men women children, that number is too big.  People are focussing on numbers like 47 million on food stamps, that is USA citizens who apparently cannot feed themselves, or more to the point, use the safety net as a hammock.

What kind of system produces 90 million not working and 47 million needing free food?  The disaster here is what we do not see, the contributions of good these people would be making if they were not on the dole.  There is much to dissuade people from being productive, such as being burdened will ill-education, predatory "criminal-justice," regulatory madness, predatory banking, and intellectual property "rights" enforced while real property rights are denied. It is enough to dissuade anyone.

If we were to return to freedom a bit, like deregulate medicine or education or banking, we'd see another renaissance and those 90 million would be needed.  But there are enough people who benefit from this, and still a strong enough desire to be ruled, that the prospect is not rosy.  Eliminating the Intellectual Property regime would be a huge advance.

Time to prepare by starting up, I mean, developing a customer-centric business.

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