This feels very similar to the observation that leads to the idea of patents—namely, that if spinning up the first instance of a thing and working out the kinks is expensive, but copying is cheap and the invention will predictably be copied as soon as it’s shown to be valuable, that removes most of the incentive to build new things.
This feels very similar to the observation that leads to the idea of patents—namely, that if spinning up the first instance of a thing and working out the kinks is expensive, but copying is cheap and the invention will predictably be copied as soon as it’s shown to be valuable, that removes most of the incentive to build new things.
It’s similar but not the same. You can correctly compensate people for innovation and this is still a problem.