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> IP-intensive industries contribute 41% of the US GDP and employ 44% of the US workforce [1]. If you abolished IP all of that would go away.

That's right. Change the rules and 44% of people would instantly — instantly — lose their jobs. The US Economy would tank like a torpedoed ship overnight! Gone in a flash!

Or ... maybe what you wrote was a little overhyped, and perhaps when the rules changed the Market, as they say, would decide.



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