> Something can only be priced because it has value already.
You're missing the point. Ideas are invaluable. Assigning them a price detracts that value.
> I think it's a great development to allow ideas to be monetized.
The idea that everything needs to be monetize-able to be worth investing in/spending time on is, for lack of better words, a disease.
> What I find illogical is this idea that we should move forward to a world where we run a knowledge-based economy but that that knowledge shouldn't have any monetary value.
How is this illogical? Knowledge had no monetary value to being with, because it's worth more than any amount of money.
Also, we're not going to run a "knowledge-based economy". We're going to move to a knowledge-based society that most likely will depend on a service-based economy in which everyone can profit off each other's innovations, allowing for incremental development that will speed up progress by magnitudes.
> Are we going to barter ideas between one another to make ends meet? I'd love to hear how . . .
But that's exactly what we're doing right now (licensing etc), and which you rightly point out is illogical to the point of utter absurdness.
You're missing the point. Ideas are invaluable. Assigning them a price detracts that value.
> I think it's a great development to allow ideas to be monetized.
The idea that everything needs to be monetize-able to be worth investing in/spending time on is, for lack of better words, a disease.
> What I find illogical is this idea that we should move forward to a world where we run a knowledge-based economy but that that knowledge shouldn't have any monetary value.
How is this illogical? Knowledge had no monetary value to being with, because it's worth more than any amount of money.
Also, we're not going to run a "knowledge-based economy". We're going to move to a knowledge-based society that most likely will depend on a service-based economy in which everyone can profit off each other's innovations, allowing for incremental development that will speed up progress by magnitudes.
> Are we going to barter ideas between one another to make ends meet? I'd love to hear how . . .
But that's exactly what we're doing right now (licensing etc), and which you rightly point out is illogical to the point of utter absurdness.