Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds
Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 2 months agoNot something worth respecting in the first place
Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds
Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 2 months agoNot something worth respecting in the first place
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Except it is since Chinese companies take US tech and flood the market with cheaper shittier versions. If you are a startup avoid China like the plague. Even Intel had a bunch of there stuff stolen.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
If their versions were actually shittier we wouldn’t be losing as badly as we are, you’re verifiably wrong and it comes off as racist
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
A US based company may foolishly get a contract with a Chinese manufacturer to make a specific part or product based on a spec. Said manufacturer then takes the designs and starts making them as their own. They often reduce cost by making the product with less material so that it lasts a shorter amount of time. In the tech landscape Chinese manufacturers have been known to steal software for devices without any attribution to the source. It ruins startups and harms the economy and the environment.
It isn’t “racist” as this has nothing to do with race. The core problem is the government of China not enforcing international copyright law. I don’t disagree that copyright can and has been abused in many places. However, it is still needed. Even copyleft depends on copyright.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Cool story, can’t help noticing it’s entirely unsubstantiated though. Again, if Chinese manifacturing quality was actually that much lower consistently than American manifacturing we wouldn’t be losing.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 months ago
Ben Shapiro said so in his podcast.
Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Fixed it for you. The west barely even makes industrial products. At best western companies assembles parts ordered from China, or designs them but has them produced in china (obviously the factory manufacturing your designs will find out what the design is!)
On top of that, in many cases, western companies in china are literally signing explicit technology transfer contracts to work in china.
Even when the Chinese steal western designs (a fear that is completely overblown and mostly just corporate propaganda against market competitors), that is actually a good thing because IP is a plague upon humanity.
That’s good news.