@porco if its any consolation China will probably lose its edge as people there start demanding higher wages, thier pensioners want to cash in and automation in western countries makes it less exorbitantly expensive to make things domestically.

Same thing that happened in Japan except it'll probably be a massive clusterfuck like anything remotely problematic that cant be delayed by central planning anymore is there

Nah, if the 80s didnt collapse them nothing will. Maybe things will get as bad as it was then but probably not full collapse.

It will look like the balken wars but the size of WW1

With what players though,

Some party fuckers or the traditional kingdom clans?

Wouldn't mind either if they drop their cheating and copying after

I would

"Cheating and copying", my ass. Free market capitalism, baby. If they can make a product of similar quality and NOT charge a 10,000% markup over material cost, I'll happily give my money to them

Oh fuck

Space Jam 2 is a thing

"H-how will we pay our executives outrageous salaries if we don't artificially stop people from making the same thing we make, but cheaper?"

"okay guys, I came up with the idea for this widget. It costs $1000, and since I had the idea first, nobody else is allowed to make it, okay?"
"Hey I can make Widgets too, but I can make them for $400! They're the same, functionally, but I trimmed the fat"
"OMG this is theft"

Based matt

i agree with matthew tho

patents are bullshit

and their abuse even more so

Thank the burgers for that

patents are good in a 2year range or so

But as soon as it gets massacred into allowing design/forms to be patented it's just ridiculed by everyone

even 2 years is long time with current steps we take in automation and invention

Yeah, but the intend is to reward innovation not everyone creeping to copy each other

and there still exists questions if patents are benetifical for invention or hinderance

even with "copying" there would be different implementations and so on and so forth

and they would need to research manufacturing etc themselves what would lead to innovations too

sadly we just cant know which way is better for future

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Yes, that's exactly what we're seeing the chinks doing

Great innovation all the way

last time i checked due chink copying we have taken quite bit steps forward

any tech device what tries to be better than other with new forms of gimmicks etc ?

cheaper lab equipment what has caused leaps on material and chemical fronts

etc etc

failure to implement certain things properly has gotten us some stuff too

afaik RCWL-somethingsomethingnumbers is one of such "accidents

and the all the new ways to measure fat,heart rate etc etc are mostly reason of trying to copy/experiment on tech that someone else has already made and so on and so forth

I'm preparing the absolute poverty lunch

eww straight fries

you talk like the shape influences the taste

it does good sir it does