> That's all capitalism does: it builds enclosures, on this case on "intellectual" property and by buying the government to create a monopoly by banning imports and banning Medicare from negotiating prices.
Patents and import restrictions are orthogonal to capitalism as an economic system. They're obviously not the invisible hand of the market, but the actions of the very draconian hand of the government
That's ahistorical. The enclosure movement is seen by many as the origins of capitalism [1].
Private property is an enclosure. Intellectual property is an enclosure [2]. All of this is rent-seeking behaviour.
The story of Tetris is such a great example of all that capitalism actually does in practice: licensing and sub-licensing deals. The game was actually created by a few Russians. Everything else was just enclosures.
Private property sure, but intellectual property is not universal to all capitalist markets. And the protections vary and change. Even in American, often-times accused of strong IP protections, the protection is limited, as we're seeing here.
Patents and import restrictions are orthogonal to capitalism as an economic system. They're obviously not the invisible hand of the market, but the actions of the very draconian hand of the government