That’s simply false. There are professional inventors who license all of their patents, and there are creators who cash out before their IP can be put to productive use. When Google or Apple buys an unprofitable startup for billions, are the startups trollies for have unproductive, unprofitable “businesses” whose IP sells for billions? These are people who are doing nothing other than sitting on IP that they don’t know how to make money with, and holding it ransom from other companies that could actually use the IP profitably. But they’re not trollies, they’re worthy of celebration.
And that’s even assuming we adopt this [Lockean, labour-based view of property][1], whereby the source of proper property rights comes from the ability to put the property to productive use. But it’s clear that this isn’t the only source of property rights in modern cultures, as landlords and other rent seekers have property that they make no productive use from but charge others for using productively. Yet landlords are seldom described as trollies, even though they do nothing to make their property productive.
The threat of violent revolution is a great solution. If this becomes a real threat, it’s a great signal that the system is broken and something needs to be done. Violence and other extra-legal responses strongly signal how disempowered, disenfranchised, and dissatisfied those engaging in it are, and is one of the reasons why growing inequality should be a greater concern.