• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    People shit on China all the goddamn time here but they’ve done a prolific job becoming the tech and manufacturing leader in a handful of decades.

    Blame it on tech espionage if you want but there’s a reason the US is deadset on targeting Chinese imports, and it’s hardly for any of the security reasons they might be tempted to claim it to be. The US is about to be left behind and it’s noones fault but our own.

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      5 months ago

      Tech espionage is a pretty big problem though, not something anyone should hand-wave away as irrelevant.

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        5 months ago

        Maybe in a particular light, but I’m personally of the opinion that intellectual property and patent law is antithetical to good social policy… so idk. Ideally we’d all benefit from the knowledge and ingenuity of all mankind but in a capitalist economic world-view there’s no place for egalitarianism so…

        If they can take the same tech and make it better/produce it cheaper then I think that’s great, go nuts.

        But that’s obviously just me.