@icedquinn @newt that's a pretty complex and abstract discussion.

I don't think patents are very capitalist, because they are the government enforcing monopoly over math. They restrict free markets and voluntary transaction.

When a corporation biases toward certainty over opportunity, they have to be already dominant in the market, and in the long run they become dinosaurs. They get out-competed in the long-run and wither away (without anyone dying). Frequently this requires patents and copyright lawyer-mongering to pull off.

When a government biases toward certainty over opportunity (socialism and planned economy), they see competition as counter-productive, because the cooperative way is to
1) Decide the best way to make the widget
2) Only do it that one way, and create a huge economy of scale by having a single state-owned corporation make it
and they see competition and experimentation as a waste of resources.
The result is the entire country becoming a dinosaur, and when they choose a bad way as "the best and only way", starvation.

On a more personal/psychological level, it's not about chaos-good/chaos-bad. It's about skill in converting chaos to order. That's the value. Sitting around in the order you've created from chaos, is stagnation. I actually don't like those hyper-competitive MOBAs, because they punish creativity and exploration. Too much order.

Too much chaos is fatal, too, but now I'm just talking like Jordan Peterson.