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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sona" data-source="post: 3209767" data-attributes="member: 141028">You're missing the point though. When information is your product you can only profit from controlling the free flow of that information. Operating within the confines of a single nation severely limits the value of information. So information economies need to spread their "values" across the globe. Which is what large multi-national American firms are doing right now. They are the reason copyright and IP keeps being raised time and again in parliaments around the world. They are the reason the EPO wants to copy the USPTO's business model.Skills? What skills? In any given work force you're either skilled at manual/engineering tasks or information/management tasks. You can't build a healthy economy with only one skill set. You need a mix and that's what we're lacking right now.</blockquote>