Why do we Destroy instead of Build

This week there have been pleny of headlines about riots in Vancouver and now the hacking of sites. Why is the new fun thing to do is to destroy instead of build? I do not understand this mentality.

In celebration or in depression we should focus on building stuff up instead of tearing it down. Don’t get me wrong. Hackers have actually provided a very valuable service to the security industry. Without the hackers breaking in alot of the security tools we have in place would not be needed. But in the same sense why wouldn’t you want to spend your time working on the side to build up security and try to be better than the hackers. In other words instead of trying to figure out a way to break something that someone has built try to discover something new that no one has built and make it. That to me is more of a challenge and shows way more skill.

Hackers are like movie critics. They tell people how much they suck but yet produce nothing. It is very easy to tell someone that I don’t like your stuff, but it takes way more guts to put your work out there for people to view.

Hackers and their community need to realize that it is cooler, more productive, and challenging to create instead of destroy. Build something cool that can’t be hacked and I will be impressed, destroying something that someone else has built is nothing more than childish.

Patents

Do we really need this anymore?

This is something that needs to be considered. For that matter there are plenty of antiquated ways we hold on to during modern times only for the fact that this is how it has been done.

We need to consider does keeping these old ways help or hinder. I do understand that doing away with some things can cause jobs to be lost and so on. But does keeping innovation crippled help or hinder job growth.

Basically there is way too much time and money being spent on the patent system. If you build something and are the first to come up with the idea then you need to be the best at it. Why can’t someone come into your industry and compete with you. If they can do it better or faster then why should you have a legal right to stop them from doing that. It is up to you to find a way to out do them. The patent office provides no value to society it only hinders innovation and competitivness.

So what do you think about this? Do you think it helps or hinders? Could we live without it or is it absolutely necessary? Let me know your thoughts on this in the comments.

Thanks for reading.