Not believing in or investing in your own biopower is really scary, yeah. The belief that once you steal some documents you'll be able to start doing the thing, the disbelief in having your own seasoned smart ingenuitous people who make stuff happen... It's kind of madcap to me.

It signals a very scary zero-sum mentality of getting ahead at any cost. But like, it's the college student who cheats on every exam... yeah you're getting good grades. Yeah you eventually figured out how to copycat the stuff. What's that worth? Is the output enough?

I do appreciate a lot though the counter view in this thread that IP is a made up fiction, that it's artificial, and that we could probably be much greater a world if we had reward mechanisms to give other than complete & total control for 20+ years.