The Law of the Harvest

Is it always true that you reap what you sow? The answer to that has to be no. Even when the law of the harvest applied to an actual harvest, there was always the chance that your harvest could be stolen, or wiped out by an enemy army, or simply taken by the government. Given the possibility that we won’t reap what we sow, why bother sowing at all? Patents rest on the fear that we won’t bother to sow without the guarantee that we can reap the rewards. However, there are other possible reasons to work. One is the fulfillment received by making progress. Why else would we spend all day playing a mind-numbing video game while thinking about how we could be doing something useful? Often, it’s because we just want to beat this next level. Similarly, we work to see progress. That feeling of progress can’t be taken away, so it’s possible patents could be.