I find it best to go Rand on them. "Ok, if it's built by the public, then let the public finance and run my business. Let the public do my research. What's that? You need me to do it?"

Or, if I REALLY want to have fun, I suggest that, if my time and effort aren't my own, what else isn't? Maybe we also don't have rights to our own bodies (shaes of Obamacare). Maybe we should mandate companionship for the romantically challenged - have the government "tax" women their time and bodies to go over and spend it with some lonely geek. After all, if we're just part of a system, what does it matter?