"Intellectual property is another of the many ways today’s corporations use law to ensure that competition will be extinguished and that they can continue remaining on top.
Apple, for example, has the ability to allow their design teams to cut themselves completely off from the rest of the company and “create their own reporting structures and report directly to the executive team. This leaves them free to focus on design rather than day-to-day minutiae.” This allows for quicker innovation, and the ability to put in their application for an artificial monopoly first..."
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