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> "Theft of trade secrets" is how Silicon Valley was built. However something was "built" doesn't mean that those practices are ethical or should be continued,
by Razengan 7y ago
> "Theft of trade secrets" is how Silicon Valley was built.
However something was "built" doesn't mean that those practices are ethical or should be continued, or be imitated by others trying to catch up to that thing.
For (an extreme) example, many countries were built on the massacre of indigenous peoples. Most of them have stopped doing that now.
- ryacko 7y agoI think it could be argued that they ran out of indigenous peoples or those people have formed their own country.
- zimpenfish 7y agoAlso possibly because it's a lot more difficult to cover these things up nowadays (but doesn't stop people trying; cf. Bolsonaro's attitude to indigenous people or denying flu vaccine to detained migrants on the US border.)
- ryacko 7y agoCover up what? No one is interested in most of these wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...