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Companies should be allowed to sue countries or personally hold bureaucrats liable. Great, You just decreased competition by killing a company.
by arcticbunny 3y ago
Companies should be allowed to sue countries or personally hold bureaucrats liable.
Great, You just decreased competition by killing a company.
- MBCook 3y agoIf they can’t be competitive owning 46% of the market the government isn’t the problem.
- throwaway2990 3y agoIf company A spends millions on research and development to produce a product, and sells it for a 20% margin to attempt to recoup its R&D and make a profit, and a Chinese company is like “oh cool, let’s copy it, sell it at half the price, but we get a 90% margin cos we have access to all the cheap labour and resources with no R&D overhead” the problem isn’t not being able to be competitive at 46% market share.
- bruce511 3y agoI have 2 replies. A) you just described the Open Source dilemma. One I've been dwelling on for some time with little in the way of suggestions. B) while your narrative is popular, the idea that "Chinese just copy" is rapidly becoming obsolete. I bought a Chinese inverter last year that is cheaper, and has a lot more features than the "established US brand". Equally Roombas have lagged in some areas, despite the R&D investment. It's this lagging which is hurting the cause.
- throwaway2990 3y agoI live in Asia. Have lots of high quality Chinese products. My point is China doesn’t do a lot of the up front R&D. They ride off the back of copies. But they are really good at improving them.
- hughesjj 3y agoThe Chinese companies are leading in innovation of these robots though