I think this post unhelpfully mixes general, systemic criticisms around innovation, public goods and IP (which I’m very interested in and sympathetic to) with the “news hook”—COVID vaccines. It strikes me as incredibly unlikely that we’ll determine and shift to a better solution in the current crisis. I think the most likely outcome of action here would be to shift us out of the local maximum but not into the global maximum. I think a proposal of an alternative system, an analysis of its cost and benefits relative to the status quo , and a plan for how to get there from here would receive a very different reception.
I think this post unhelpfully mixes general, systemic criticisms around innovation, public goods and IP (which I’m very interested in and sympathetic to) with the “news hook”—COVID vaccines. It strikes me as incredibly unlikely that we’ll determine and shift to a better solution in the current crisis. I think the most likely outcome of action here would be to shift us out of the local maximum but not into the global maximum. I think a proposal of an alternative system, an analysis of its cost and benefits relative to the status quo , and a plan for how to get there from here would receive a very different reception.