So why am I still angry
Don't get mad, go harass them to ask them to become {venture capitalists|pay pigs} for a B-corp that helps underdeveloped nations "run their economy" on innovation.
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I've heard this from coworkers who worked in the pharmaceutical industry, too. In defense of US pharmaceutical pricing, no less. "Yeah, but it was invented here."
I can't even talk to these people.
Nothing says innovation like taser gloves and flock cameras.
Who's those widgets being made for?
Who are all those widgets being made for!
China is so good at stealing tech they even steal tech that the US hasn't invented yet to get ahead of the US
Highly recommend people like this use "innovation" as a way to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves.
USA is literally built on Stolen land by Imported Enslaved Labor and a ton of their intellectuals are Austerity Refugees.
Western Civilization is a white hole. Reducing all life to the molecular level and treating it all as equally meaningless, the only meaning they derive from is within their own thick skulls justifying whatever they wish, those who are too weak to defend themselves are deemed as expendables, the strong are viewed as rivals and you are the only thing that matters.
Fundamentally sick society.
US is also built on stolen IP because american courts refused to enforce european claims. this was happening as late as the mid 20th century.
(yes yes, IP isnt real, but these fucks sure love to pretend it is)
And the US film industry is in California because the courts there refused to enforce Edison's patents. (He thought the right format for film was an arcade machine that plays gifs)
And then they get mad that China is stealing the IP the of the products they made for the US.
In a lot of cases not even stealing it. Technology transfer was a big part of letting foreign companies set up shop in the PRC.
"The Russians never invent anything. All they have, they’ve got from others. Everything comes to them from abroad—the engineers, the machine-tools. Give them the most highly perfected bombing-sights. They’re capable of copying them, but not of inventing them." - Adolf Hitler
It turns out it's the white supremacists who can't innovate because they've been recycling the same fucking racist canard for decades
Literally the only western innovations this century has been tools for mass scale oppression like surveillance and control. Otherwise, we're stuck in the eternal year of 2001.
hey now we also innovated our way to 15 types of ketchup made in the same factory but sold to 15 different labels at 15 different prices
Woah there, one of those ketchups comes pre mixed with mayo.
Don't forget innovation when they invent new financial "instruments" and other scams like NFTs!
Quick question drives the economy where?
And what do you think China is ripping off with the giant magnet that's used for fusion? Fucking Spiderman 2?
Why wasn't the US able to retain the memer who made the dongfeng missile despite being such a hub for innovation (hehehe)
Why isn't the US open to using funds for research and development instead of using the money for genocide?
Why hasn't innovation improved access to the fundamentals of human flourishing? No healthcare innovation besides the fucking chatbot for expensive insulin? No food innovation besides lettuce that makes you poop?
Silicon Valley is losing the AI arms race in a winner takes all sprint to a group of like 5 Chinese nationals who think it's funny to distill Claude?
Why wouldn't the innovation economy care that children are well educated and capable of warding off conspiracie theories, anti intellectualism, and anti-science like flat Earth?
Why wouldn't the innovation economy care about making sure its most educated are well off enough to not want to immigrate to places that provide healthcare, housing, childcare, education, and public transportation at reasonable prices?
Because I'm not convinced that America is driven by innovation so much as extraction infrastructure and MLMs
This is laughable, barely a few years ago the EU was 'demanding' China share tech secrets; they were really trying to make begging seem dignified
Popping out 5 billion plastic widgets per months is actually what drives economies. Patents are useless if you can't produce them
America is doing a great job innovating casinos and gambling
And fraud!
We're also finding new ways to optimize shitting ourselves to death
So the thing japan did to make its entire technology and car sectors that lead to massive success worldwide?
Also reproducing the same thing but cheaper quite literally is competition
Yeah that is why we need tariffs and barriers to Chinese EVs so Tesla can keep existing.
they only things amerikkka invents now is bloatware and scams
At this point the whole world knows that China has the most advanced technology. Who did they steal it from, Aliens?
what do you mean they are better at innovating and their economy is doing better? Don't you know TEMU=TOFU=ASIA=CHINA=
Man I love US innovations like Teflon, exploding cars and my DIIIIIIIIIICK
you read on after "all the china stans are ignoring one salient 
detail" that's why. i read up to "innovation" like a rube and i'm still angry about it.
Just let them throw a tantrum into the void, it's only going downhill from here on for them
cope harder
Look at all these orders of magnitudes of more Chinese original patents they stole
What do you mean Doc, all the best stuff's made in China
Everything is made in China these days.
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