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.”
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
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.”
Yeah, even the Back to the Future trilogy (with its racism idealizing the 50s) pointed this discrepancy out
I should pull this line anytime our bosses pull another public private partnership out from the depths of their asses.
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
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!”