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100% agree. It's clearest to see in China. IP has been transformed from a mechanism to maintain competition and into a mechanism to maintain market control.
by elif 10mo ago
100% agree. It's clearest to see in China. IP has been transformed from a mechanism to maintain competition and into a mechanism to maintain market control.
- gyomu 10mo agoGiven that market control is one of the few ultimate gating factors that makes you thrive or die as a company, it’s no surprise that anything that could be used as a mechanism to maintain market control would be.
- expedition32 10mo agoEuropean countries "acquired" quite a few Chinese trade secrets in the past. And from eachother to be fair. IP is one of those things you invent once you made it to the top.
- cma 10mo ago"Kicking away the ladder" https://www.amazon.com/Kicking-Away-Ladder-Development-Perspective/dp/1843310279 https://www.amazon.com/Kicking-Away-Ladder-Development-Persp... The US industrial revolution was from Samuel Slater memorizing detailed plans of British textile mills and their machines and bringing them here.