Know-how is metaphysics. Metaphysics now rules. The generation of unprecedented wealth is commencing on planet Earth. Yet, no economic accounting book lists metaphysical assets. Metaphysics is held to be insubstantial.
Principles alone are inherently metaphysical and thus unpatentable.
This is a radical departure from the bankruptcy accounting systems of conventional economic thinking. Only the 1000 great corporations have realized the source of true wealth generation, and they are committed to controlling all of it. Metaphysical know-how was the magic wand of the second half of the 20th century world power structures. Physical properties were subject to deterioration, taxable and cumbersome. Land and buildings were of no further interest to capitalism.