Coronavirus vaccines, Intellectual property, currency value and Bill Gates

I may be missing some nuance in my evaluation here, but I wanted to bring up what I think may be an important point about how we treat intellectual property and our philosophy about sharing it with other countries.

I recently read an article where Bill Gates (as it was written in the interview transcript) seemed extremely certain that he did not see value (and perhaps was very against the idea) in sharing intellectual property with other countries so they could ramp up additional production of coronavirus vaccines.

He, of course sounded off as though he's concerned about the "manufacturing process" and how it needs to be carefully managed, which I don't disagree with.

But here's the thing, which I think is an extremely important issue human civilization is going to need to grapple with over the next several decades:

But let's start with currency value. One thing that I find extraordinarily ridiculous about our current (mostly) global economy. It feels counter-intuitive to me, but countries are not in a race to strengthen their currencies. They all seem happy with the idea of weakening their currencies in order to continue to be able to export to other countries. Why not, instead, try to strengthen the weak countries? I mean of course there need to be boundaries because there are plenty of corrupt governments out there who would love to take advantage of such a situation. But the point is that MOST countries SHOULD be capable and we should be willing to help them strengthen their currencies. The only way we can do that is by helping them strengthen their economies, and really let's be honest in a technological civilization intellectual property is perhaps THE THING that these countries need more of in order to make that happen.

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