• Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    22 hours ago

    Redditors are incredibly delusional. China has its flaws but being backwards is not one of them.

    The whole “stealing tech” used to be said about the Japanese too. I remember a Japanese woman talking about how she and her father went to some kind of tech expo in the early 70’s and some guy looked at them and said, “why should I show you anything? You people are just going to steal it anyway.”

    • facow [he/him, any]
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      15 hours ago

      Also "stealing" tech is just kind of how countries develop. It was explicit US policy to steal European patents during industrialization. There's no reason there should be a global monopoly on some idea

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        15 hours ago

        Apparently it was one of the big Freedoms™ people would point to in the 19th century.

        "What makes America so free? Why, you can manufacture what you like, print and sell anything! Copyright? Patent? Sheer humbugery!"

    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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      18 hours ago

      I should pull this line anytime our bosses pull another public private partnership out from the depths of their asses.