Today I’ve got this Issue on my Nationstates (nationstates.net)
Defending Patent Pending
Pear Industries, one of NATIONSNAME’s largest consumer electronics companies, wishes to bring a lawsuit against a small technology firm for making use of a piece of electronics they developed. The smaller firm is imploring the government to maintain its recent anti-copyright laws, which they claim legally extend to patents.
I’ve encountered with many choices
1. “Patents are simply a tool for large companies to abuse entrepreneurs and the consumer!” argues small-time inventor and part-time champagne socialist, Melissa McKay. “They use their huge legal departments to muscle out any smaller company that might ‘pose a threat’. The government’s ban of patents gave us all access to the advances those fat-cats have been sitting on all these years. You want to throw that all away so some guy can add a few more zeros to the end of his bank account?”
2. “My team poured years of research and millions of CURRENCYinto developing this component,” claims Pear’s dressed-down CEO, Steve Tasks. “It’s our blood, sweat and tears that led to this breakthrough. You must allow companies greater claim over their discoveries. We need patents. We need copyrights. They are the incentive that keeps inventors inventing. Reinstate patents and copyrights or NATIONSNAME’s research will come to a stand-still and our country a technological backwater devoid of any semblance of innovation.”
3. “The only thing that’s clear from this is that SCIENCE isn’t getting enough funding,” grumbles eminent, if notoriously disaffected, physicist Bianca Pond. “The only reason we have to spend so much effort protecting our discoveries is because we’re so worried about where our next paycheck is coming from. If the government opened up its coffers to eager scientists, this whole debate would simply go away. Not to mention that government could lay claim to any particularly intriguing discoveries…”
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Option 3. sounds cool so I choose it.
The result saids ‘The government subsidizes everything from particle physics to fabric softeners.’
In result, my nation get a boost of this qualities.
Industry: Information Technology
Fann-Boi Productivity Index 13.8%
Scientific Advancement
Kurzweil Singularity Index 4.5%
Intelligence
Quips Per Hour 3.7%
Public Education
Edu-tellignce® Test Score 2.3%
Business Subsidization
Gilded Widget Scale 2.0%
Corruption
Kickbacks Per Hour 1.6%
Economic Output
0.85%
Average Income
0.85%
Government Size
Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index 0.37%
Human Development Index
Human Development Index 0.37%
Pacifism
Cheeks Turned Per Day 0.26%
Economy
Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index 0.20%
Lifespan
Years 0.20%
Tourism
Tourists Per Hour 0.13%
Taxation
Effective Tax Rate 0.06%
And decline in this qualities
Integrity
Percentage Of Bribes Refused 0.06%
Safety
Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating 0.30%
Crime
Crimes Per Hour 0.49%
Welfare
Safety Net Mesh Density Rating 0.84%
Public Transport
Societal Mobility Rating 0.84%
Eco-Friendliness
Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index 0.84%
Foreign Aid
Clooney Contribution Index 0.84%
Weather
Meters Of Sunlight 1.9%
Weaponization
Weapons Per Person 5.3%
This choice is nice.
