China: design a “national priority.”
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- mydo0
If you grow up with no concept of intellectual property, why should it bother you when you go into business.
The man down the road made bamboo baskets, your father made the same bamboo basket to earn money. Now the guy down the road makes electric bikes, you make the same electric bike in your factory.
Maybe it's the West's problem. Our obsession with ownership. Corporate greed.
- makes senseutopian
- The west's problem, and Japan's, and Korea's and every other modern state's.ThePublics
- ThePublics0
10 years ago people were saying how we'd all need to speak Chinese in 10 years.
30 years ago they said the same thing about the Japanese. And of course we all know how that turned out. But the Japanese are actually capable of designing original, quality products that the world wants - something that China has yet to accomplish ... 53 years after the great leap forward.
- mydo0
The Great Leap forward being the single most rubbish plan in history. Almost 80 million deaths is never good for creativity.
- i_monk0
Are we under the impression that the China of the 1960s is the China of the 2010s, or will be the China of 2030? The Chinese government of 1960 would have every party member of 2010 executed for counter-revolutionary activity. Things change; a few decades of communist authoritarianism is hardly representative of the thousands of years of creativity Chinese culture is imbued with, and it won't last much longer.
- ThePublics0
yeah hey i_monk, you just said absolutely nothing.