And what about when you've taken a loan out on your family home to finance the development of a product, but are then ruined by the incumbent oligopoly's abuse of their patent monopoly to put your prices through the roof and never improve their products?
I can write emotionally-charged anecdotes too, see. The question is whether the benefits outweigh the negatives. Everything is exaggerated, politicized bullshit from almost any other perspective.