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You're utterly delusional. If this system has done anything is to stiffle small, independent producers and consolidate power in megacorporations.
This is the kind of crap you're defending: https://patents.justia.com/patent/12268585
This is a random, recent patent from P&G. Read that bullshit, and then tell if if what they're describing isn't the most generic design for a diaper or sanitary napkin ever?
"One permeable layer facing the wearer, then a semipermeable layer that tries to only allow liquid to move away from the wearer, then an absorbing layer, then an outer impermeable layer"
Oh boy, if it wasn't for that patent, I'd be pumping 500 million dollars into building a factory so I can flood the market with my cheap fake products! - said nobody when they read that.
It's hilarious how far removed from reality your ideal of patents is...
You appear to want to completely burn down a system you don't understand because of some examples of misuse. For example, as there are slumlords, should we make all property free? Or should we solve the underlying problem (of massive capital flows to the rich?)
You also have no idea how to read and understand a patent. The way they are written is horrendously verbose and highly confusing, but so are medical research papers or legal case summaries, and for the similar reasons: these are highly technical documents that have to follow common law (i.e. a long history of legal decisions taken in IP disputes).
The real problem in the US IMHO has been the constant defunding of the patent office that has allowed a large number of very poor patents to be filed. The problems you are screaming about largely go to that root cause.
But don't throw the baby out with the bath water - you have no idea how bad that would be for everybody but the mega corporations.
Cool story bro.