Depends on whether you think people would work nights and weekends to get an idea out the door if someone with more money can immediately copy and profit.
History says no, but maybe there is a different system.
How many sucessful patents are from freestanding inventors nowadays actually?
The main in-action of patent I have seen is patents being hoarded in big corporations. If the engineers work nights and weekends at those it is their own fault.
They are rewarded with salaries that have never before existed outside of law/business/rent seeking (kings/land owners/etc.), the main power brokers of wealth in most of human history.
