How can intellectual property patents survive in a society with indefinite growth potential?

For example Big Pharmacy’s sued Indian pharmacies because they supply better/cheaper HIV meds to Africa. One of many possible examples. What if eating with “tools” was intellectual property of some big company and you decide to copy/paste this useful skill and spread the enlightenment across friends so they too can copy/paste it. The big multinational would obviously lose a lot of money and jobs,

Are we literally enslaved to the ever-changing technologies of everyday life? Are we really happier?

Let’s face it. It’s the twenty-first century and almost everywhere you will see something that we humans have created that supposedly “make our lives easier”: Computers, MP3 Players, Cellphones, Automobiles with GPS, Traffic Lights, etc.

Development in countries rely on these technologies, as well as the destruction of “old fashion” values in others.

Tell me your opinion about this.