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How is this downvoted to oblivion 5 minutes after posting?
wumao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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wumao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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> Saying it's (always?) (usually?) the governments fault is capitalist propaganda. I gather from your post that you may not have much experience with startups or small business on your own, despite where we are. Because all the things you say are hard or impossible or just not done, are things you see daily. People with no IP working around that of others, which is the same problem for you as a foreign company. Peopl…
Actually, I work for a small tech company, and have to work around other people's undocumented interfaces all the time just like everyone else in this industry. Your vision sorta works for software-based startups which are not capital intensive and dominated by labor costs. And I've seen first hand how telecommuting overcomes bad immigration law, allowing people in the west to cut the deals that cannot be done remote…
This is viewing what I said in an impossibly narrow light. We don't need every man woman and child (of sufficient age to work) to be brimming with such initiative and self-agency. Just a subset of entrepreneurial ones who start businesses which bring these factors together and hire others. This happens on both sides of the ocean. If you can't hire the skills you need you train people. It's far cheaper to do in a country where your competition is the pay they get at home on the farm. This is exactly the situation in India. By the way did you see the thread about what a hassle it is to start a business in India?
Only a fraction of Americans work for large businesses. Generally more work for small businesses, so focusing only on giant scaled-up business models isn't even an accurate picture here.
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> One in five North American-based corporations on the CNBC Global CFO Council says Chinese companies have stolen their intellectual property within the last year. In all, 7 of the 23 companies surveyed say that Chinese firms have stolen from them over the past decade. I don’t see this as a minimized fact.
For people which don't beliv it, just visit Amazone and see how many "fake" YYY products are sold which do not only have the same functionality (might be legal) but also have the exact same design, copied from designs of companies where you can be pretty sure they do create design patents for all kinds of things. Worse this look alike fakes are often placed above the original products when you search for the product…
- Professor Guy Standing
also:
1. The current political economy is based on a false idea of material abundance.
We call it pseudo-abundance. It is based on a commitment to permanent growth, the infinite accumulation of capital and debt-driven dynamics through compound interest. This is unsustainable, of course, because infinite growth is logically and physically impossible in any physically constrained, finite system.
2. The current political economy is based on a false idea of “immaterial scarcity.”
It believes that an exaggerated set of intellectual property monopolies—for copyrights, trademarks and patents—should restrain the sharing of scientific, social and economic innovations. Hence the system discourages human cooperation, excludes many people from benefiting from innovation and slows the collective learning of humanity. In an age of grave global challenges, the political economy keeps many practical alternatives sequestered behind private firewalls or unfunded if they cannot generate adequate profits."
- By Michel Bauwens, Franco Iacomella