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 You essentially are making those investors take the bus if you copy their product and sell it a price they can't compete with. There's a difference between an idea and a usable product that has been developed at an expense. Plenty of people have ideas, but that isn't worth shit unless someone is willing to invest their energy into making it real.

We protect intellectual property so investors can recoup their investments rather than just being eaten by people who didn't take the initial risk. If you want to give away what you invest in and create then fine. But you don't get to say that forcing everyone else to do that isn't theft.

This seems like it was written by a mentally delayed child in a communist country. 
 Patents are a monopoly on the execution of an idea you happen to have first. So retarded. Society would benefit more if anyone could compete in executing your idea. 
 Imagine thinking ideas are exclusive and it is the role of government to stop other people from using the ideas you put into public.   That sounds more communist to me.   If you don’t want other people to copy your ideas, it’s on you to keep them a trade secret.  If patents and copyright weren’t a fake form of government intrusion, they’d never expire.