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But if they wanted to they were free to start a company and profit from their IP directly, they chose not to (assuming they didn't personally choose to sign some perpetual non-compete of which would have still been their choice). That's different than it being illegal to do so. No one ever got rich from working hard? I'm guessing you're unaware of most tech founders who had an idea, left the company they were at, started their own and became wealthy. Nvidia is a good example currently. Jensen Huang worked for AMD, Chris Malachowsky worked for HP, Curtis Priem worked for IBM. They had an idea, they quit their jobs and profited directly off their IP.
This story is extremely common across so many industries. Most founders once worked for someone else, had an idea, quit, and started their own company. Imagine you just work for the government, if you have an idea well cool for you we're not funding that and you want to quit? How about no. Oh we actually let you quit and give you funding for your idea, well your pay will never increase no matter how much value you produce or how many hours you work to bring your idea to life. You work 35 hours per week or 100, same pay. You generated 10 billion dollars of value? You don't even get a pizza party or a short day this Friday.
I'm cool with socializing a lot of things but there needs to be a way to compensate people to some degree based on the quality and quantity of their labor. There needs to be some freedom for a person to do what they want or even take out financial risk (loans) to change what they are doing aka go to school, start a company and so on.
Edit: please don't just downvote, actually respond with a worthwhile point. I'm more than willing to concede a debate and hopefully you are as well.