Serious question: How does this worldview survive a collision with a stereotypical cancer-cure argument? Like, a pharmacological company needs to invest billions into R&D to invent a drug curing cancer. Without any kind of patent mechanism they will never be able to justify this kind of investment, cause the minute the release their drug, others can reverse engineer it and start selling generics of it for fraction of the cost because they never had to pay upfront R&D.