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Here's my question: which American companies are so insanely dumb that they actually thought sharing any version of any of this made any sense? are these the or

Here's my question: which American companies are so insanely dumb that they actually thought sharing any version of any of this made any sense? are these the organizational consequences of rich people not actually managing the companies that the engineers are working for? Maybe the engineers are like "Just to hell with my country, my company, my neighbors my family and futire myself, I'll do whatever it takes to get my raise. The left-wing folks at Berkeley are right, everyone's here for the common good, we just don't really understand the Chinese. We should share more, and gain their trust."

mrunkel 7y ago
Is it truly so hard to understand that what is the best action for oneself isn't necessarily the best action for the community (however one defines community)? American companies want to sell their products in China. Quite often that requires them to base some part of production in China. As for the last, yes, there is a large cultural gap between the US and the Chinese and frankly that gap exists mostly on the US side. I'd argue that without understanding the language, you'll never really understand another culture. Sure, you can base your understanding on a few people that do understand the language, but your understanding will always be skewed by their prejudices. In my lifetime, I've dealt with business people from a variety of cultures. Some are honest, some aren't. Some are cheap, some believe you have to spend money to make money. Some are successful, some aren't. None of that aligns with any particular culture. We assign attributes to remote cultures based on reports of the extremes (because the day to day doesn't get reported). When the same behavior gets reported in our own cultures, we simply say well, it's those guys that were bad, not the entire culture.

mrunkel 7y ago

Is it truly so hard to understand that what is the best action for oneself isn't necessarily the best action for the community (however one defines community)? American companies want to sell their products in China. Quite often that requires them to base some part of production in China. As for the last, yes, there is a large cultural gap between the US and the Chinese and frankly that gap exists mostly on the US side. I'd argue that without understanding the language, you'll never really understand another culture. Sure, you can base your understanding on a few people that do understand the language, but your understanding will always be skewed by their prejudices. In my lifetime, I've dealt with business people from a variety of cultures. Some are honest, some aren't. Some are cheap, some believe you have to spend money to make money. Some are successful, some aren't. None of that aligns with any particular culture. We assign attributes to remote cultures based on reports of the extremes (because the day to day doesn't get reported). When the same behavior gets reported in our own cultures, we simply say well, it's those guys that were bad, not the entire culture.