I had a somewhat strong reaction that seemed mindkillingly ideological (for and in my mind against) so i had a cool-off period and didn’t immidietly reply. I am not confident or comfotable to make global judgement so some of the local issues I have with messing with IP rights.
Being allowed to do an error
Everybody has a button but has promised not to press their button. If their word is reliable then taking the button away should not change the amount of buttons pressed. Usually when arguing for freedom it is because in some important case exercising that right gives a good outcome. If everybody agrees that the button is bad why is the right important? You don’t put the Petrov day button to the hands of as many people as you can. I guess the Petrov day button is a trust exercise so this would signal distrust. Also not exercising a right doesn’t give the right away.
Writing down to an agreement and living it
The WTO thing invokes an already written option. Drug companiens expectations and projections should change when it is undersigned. If the projections change after undersigning it is becuase there is doubt whether it will be actually followed though. Sure it can feel like theorethical hypotheticals if the conditions being considered are likely but there is no place to sulk if the agreement is old and the condition is clearly established.
Public vs private rights
I get this vibe where that if a private entity has a right then it can’ tbe morally questioned when exercising those but decisions of public entities are subject to additional rules on how to use the rights bestowed. In a nation of laws it should be possible for a public entity to hold up a private party to their end of a deal.
Hopes vs rights
A company might want to assume or hope for that its functional rights will hold in even a little extreme circumstances. In a fictive dystopia like a Deus Ex a party holding a cure against grey death might be able to hold peoples lives as a bargaining chip. But a state enabling extortion to death could be politically unviable. If there were serious issues of using existing companies to produce lifesaving technology and the goverment could more functionally step in to save more lifes then the expectation of promoting the life of the citizens would probably mean that there would be an expectation for the public actor to step in. This line can be blurry and hard to see and somewhat arbitrary. But the businesses are not entitled to “market mechanics at all costs”.
Markets as a survival strategy in emergencies
It is pretty hardline to expect to handle even the most extreme circumstances with market mechanics. Taken to the extreme this could mean setups where soldiers could run out of bullets because of lack of personal funds. Markets are a way to get things done and it has many desirable properties but it is not the only way to get things done.
Precedent vs explicit negotiation
If there were nothing agreed and then the more powerful party just dictated conditons that would be authoritarian. But when there is conditonal cluases in agreements those have been settled. What constituted a “pandemic” might be a bit nebolous but if there are clauses concenring such states then the parties should understand that in some conditons those might actually get triggered. I wouldn’t be surprised if drug compaines have extensive risk-anylyses with explicit numbers for pretty far-off scenarios and public administrators have lengthy plans and regulations to cover all sorts of contingencies but in ideologial discussions a more general “peoples rights” vs “corporations rights” would be apparent. For a system working throught law and agreement this should all be in ink rather than social pressure.
It is just stupid to pay too much
Americans have the most costly healthcare with pretty lackluster upkeep on peoples health. The relationship between incentive and output can be questioned. Having a culture of “expected incentives” could mean that people argue why they have the right to the profit instead of doing extra things. Caring too much for the proxy might mean that carrying over several proxies the total outcome is still quite lackluster.
I had a somewhat strong reaction that seemed mindkillingly ideological (for and in my mind against) so i had a cool-off period and didn’t immidietly reply. I am not confident or comfotable to make global judgement so some of the local issues I have with messing with IP rights.
Being allowed to do an error
Everybody has a button but has promised not to press their button. If their word is reliable then taking the button away should not change the amount of buttons pressed. Usually when arguing for freedom it is because in some important case exercising that right gives a good outcome. If everybody agrees that the button is bad why is the right important? You don’t put the Petrov day button to the hands of as many people as you can. I guess the Petrov day button is a trust exercise so this would signal distrust. Also not exercising a right doesn’t give the right away.
Writing down to an agreement and living it
The WTO thing invokes an already written option. Drug companiens expectations and projections should change when it is undersigned. If the projections change after undersigning it is becuase there is doubt whether it will be actually followed though. Sure it can feel like theorethical hypotheticals if the conditions being considered are likely but there is no place to sulk if the agreement is old and the condition is clearly established.
Public vs private rights
I get this vibe where that if a private entity has a right then it can’ tbe morally questioned when exercising those but decisions of public entities are subject to additional rules on how to use the rights bestowed. In a nation of laws it should be possible for a public entity to hold up a private party to their end of a deal.
Hopes vs rights
A company might want to assume or hope for that its functional rights will hold in even a little extreme circumstances. In a fictive dystopia like a Deus Ex a party holding a cure against grey death might be able to hold peoples lives as a bargaining chip. But a state enabling extortion to death could be politically unviable. If there were serious issues of using existing companies to produce lifesaving technology and the goverment could more functionally step in to save more lifes then the expectation of promoting the life of the citizens would probably mean that there would be an expectation for the public actor to step in. This line can be blurry and hard to see and somewhat arbitrary. But the businesses are not entitled to “market mechanics at all costs”.
Markets as a survival strategy in emergencies
It is pretty hardline to expect to handle even the most extreme circumstances with market mechanics. Taken to the extreme this could mean setups where soldiers could run out of bullets because of lack of personal funds. Markets are a way to get things done and it has many desirable properties but it is not the only way to get things done.
Precedent vs explicit negotiation
If there were nothing agreed and then the more powerful party just dictated conditons that would be authoritarian. But when there is conditonal cluases in agreements those have been settled. What constituted a “pandemic” might be a bit nebolous but if there are clauses concenring such states then the parties should understand that in some conditons those might actually get triggered. I wouldn’t be surprised if drug compaines have extensive risk-anylyses with explicit numbers for pretty far-off scenarios and public administrators have lengthy plans and regulations to cover all sorts of contingencies but in ideologial discussions a more general “peoples rights” vs “corporations rights” would be apparent. For a system working throught law and agreement this should all be in ink rather than social pressure.
It is just stupid to pay too much
Americans have the most costly healthcare with pretty lackluster upkeep on peoples health. The relationship between incentive and output can be questioned. Having a culture of “expected incentives” could mean that people argue why they have the right to the profit instead of doing extra things. Caring too much for the proxy might mean that carrying over several proxies the total outcome is still quite lackluster.