• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    Isn’t it always how it works? For example nerds invent stuff, “business people” monetise it, nerd gets nothing.

    It’s like parasitic behaviour.

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      “Socialise the cost. Privatise the profit.”

      Much of the research comes from the public sector, especially universities. But business tycoons act like they are the ones who invented something from scratch and took all the risk to commercialise the idea.

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      The nerd can also create a startup, and get a friend to be the business person. Usually this involves selling the startup to a large company at some point.

      If the nerd is an academic, the university can “help” the academic to market the invention; the academic will get a tiny amount and the university gets the rest. Or the academic can create a startup on the side, and set up their favorite graduate as the business person.

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      Yes, but that is also precisely why OP’s shower thought is incorrect: advances in science nearly always lead to new inventions, which make money.