Question

By providing intellectual property rights, a government provides people with the incentives to money

earn
lose

Answer 1

When providing intellectual property rights,the government provides people with the incentives to gain and make money not lose it. So earning would be the correct answer.

Answer 2

I believe the answer is: Earn.

Intellectual property rights protect the inventions that derived from someone's creativity/original invention. This allow small business to produce a certain type of product with exclusivity and prevent people with larger capital to took over and control the market with sheer financial power.