What's the point in innovating anything?

If you're a start-up with a paradigm shifting innovation, there's two things in your future:

1) Get bought out by a megacorporation threatened by your innovation and have your invention buried DEEP so that it'll never see light of day.

2) Get your innovation stolen by a megacorporation threatened by it. They steal it, claim a patent for it, and sell it as a crippled product to ruin its reputation. Even if you've patented it and choose to defend your patent, they'll violate the patent with impunity, and keep fighting you in courts until you're broke and destroyed. The very much prefer this latter course of action.