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Just look at what already happens to people on Kickstarter, they spend years and all this money, their own and others, designing, testing, figuring out the mark
by CosmicShadow 7y ago
Just look at what already happens to people on Kickstarter, they spend years and all this money, their own and others, designing, testing, figuring out the market and ultimately manufacturing just to have the Chinese manufacturer or another one steal the idea and sell it for cheaper, often before the actual product is released. Now imagine this happening to every inventor in your country.
But what about this import idea? How are you going to enforce it, figure it out, and actually handle or stop people trying to go around it? You'd need like 100k new government workers dealing with this.
- Lio 7y agoThere’s also an imbalance here in that China is not an open marker to firms in the West. Chinese copiers have the ability to sell into their own massive market and then cross subsidise to dump cheaper products into the rest of the world. No company in for example the West using, say, robots to reduce labour costs could dump cheap imitations into the Chinese market to destroy their manufacturing base. Same goes for service companies.
- fermienrico 7y agoThis asymmetric aspect of Chinese trade has to stop.