Westoids better pray that the Great Firewall stays up. For their own sakes.

  • CTHlurker [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    When I went to Morocco last year I was offered so many Rolex watches and Patek Philippe watches, for the small price of only 200 Moroccan Dirham. If not for the fact that everyone else I know is madly in love with the concept of IP, then I would probably have bought a few.

          • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Yeah, good. More eyes and minds working on research means more chances at cool discoveries and advancements.

            IP ostensibly exists so people can make a living selling their inventions or whatever, which is so many steps removed from the better solution of just giving people food and a house. Fuck markets, fuck marketing, steal my shit and make it cooler than I ever could have alone. Or fuck it up and send people my way looking for the real deal. Either way I'll still keep making that garbage because I love making it.

          • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            The main reason for the China doesn't respect muh IP laws thing is the good old racist Westerner belief that China is incapable of developing anything on their own, they can only rip off Western products.

            • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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              1 year ago

              they can only rip off Western products

              Bold saying this about the 4000 year old civilization that gave the world gunpowder and noodles

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              you should mention to your friend how the USA flaunted IP law for the first ~150 years of its existence

      • mayo_cider [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        One of the most important things they pay premium for is having a less accurate watch

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      As someone who has a passing interest in watches, I find watch nerds to be insufferable a lot of the time. Some mechanical watches are tiny marvels of engineering and art, but 90% of watch dudes just want to soyface over a stainless steel Rolex with no complications assembled by a machine.