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The argument against this is that a company spends millions of dollars in research to learn something valuable, and anyone who didn't spend that money can trivially outbid for the employee that knows the results, since they can pay the employee some significant portion of the cost of the research that they didn't have to do and still come out ahead. I'm not sure I entirely buy this, but it's a lot more nuanced than "just pay your employees well".

>>theduf+(OP)
this is the kind of noise you get when you decide that an idea is something that can be owned

>>theduf+(OP)
Then maybe the conclusion is don't spend millions to research that type of thing.

>>cortes+uU
What type of thing? This applies to anything. We need to pay close attention to maintaining rules to foster research and innovation.