Wouldn't paying time and a half solve the problem? If you work a 60-hr week, then you get 175% of your 40-hr salary, not 150%. Management would then have an incentive to hire enough staff.

Can innovation really happen by order of the Chinese government? Maybe through focus and sheer scale, but how does can they sustain progress across their whole economy?

Snowden has done his duty as a citizen: to expose the abuses of his country's government. And he should do his duty and receive the consequence of violating his oath: He collected and exposed secrets after agreeing not to do so. He can't have it both ways. Duty is duty.

Everyone should control the fruits of their labor. This applies to intellectual property as much to physical goods. Naturally, labor is not the only factor that makes a product profitable. If it were, then there would be no need for steel companies or record companies. The internet may reduce or eliminate the need for record companies, but the same principle applies. Patents were instituted to encourage inventors to reveal their inventions, thus surrendering control over their own ideas sooner than they might otherwise. However, we all still have the choice. We can post our ideas for free, try to sell them directly, or asign our control to someone else to sell the ideas. This is capitalism. It is the fairest system ever invented. Ownership of the fruits of labor (as opposed to stealing from someone else or from the public domain) is simple justice.