Do not ever ask the government to help you. We’re the government, and we are here to help you, is one of the biggest lies ever said or propagated.

No, the answer to the early adoption of trademarked names is not to demand government intervention- for it implies the market does not already afford itself protection from this behavior.

But, you protest, the market does not have protection from this behavior- i Submit, that the government INTERFERES with the market’s own solutions to this problem, and hamstrung by the government, the problem persists throughout new technologies.

Also, Intellectual Property is to protect resources that exist in scarcity. Ideas are not scarce resources. If they were, there would be no schools, or libraries, public or private, for fear of spreading ideas for free to people who did not pay for them.

No, the answer is not to ask for, or demand government involvement. If you do, you will get it, GOOD AND HARD.

The efficiency of the post office, the pleasantness of the BMV, and the wrecklessness of the Federal Reserve and the government, and you want their help? No thanks.

I think the follow up story should be interviews with people and organizations who have done the work of designing private solutions to these issues. Are you willing to do that reporting? If you cop out and suggest there are none, it is because you have not looked.

No, the answer is not to ask for, or demand government involvement. If you do, you will get it, GOOD AND HARD.