• Malek061@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Stealing. The word is stealing not catching up. It really doesn’t matter matter because China lacks the creativity and forethought to make the tech work. That’s a cultural problem.

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      10 months ago

      Stealing is how you catch up. Imaginary property laws were also lax in the US as it was growing. By the way, the “they just steal, they have no creativity” line was the same old bullshit trotted out against Japan while Japan was outcompeting us. Unfortunately for Japan, they’re a US ally and were bullied into adopting a financially-engineered ticking time bomb that exploded and left them with multiple lost decades.

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        10 months ago

        Sorry but the patent system you have in the US is absolute bullshit that benefits very little and is prone to abuse by patent trolls.

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        10 months ago

        Japan literally took American ideas and make them work. Japan brought over American innovators who were stifled at GM and Ford. They put in the production that killed Detroit.

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      10 months ago

      Have you seen the last couple of years who your most brilliant minds are? Hint most of them are either Asians or descendants of Asian parents.

      Like it or not, but there are a lot of really smart people in maths, science and IT people in China and Asia who are much smarter than Europeans and/or white Americans.

      Coming from a European.