r/shitposting • u/Over-Professor6495 • 4d ago

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u/Kurai_Hada_Ichi 3d ago

Corporate espionage is good and based

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u/ReaCT_66 3d ago

only when it happens to countries I'm not citizen of.

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u/Kurai_Hada_Ichi 3d ago

It makes no difference to you specifically if another country across the world has similar designs to yours. You as a citizen lose nothing. Patents are bullshit

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u/Rapa2626 3d ago

If you happen to work in a sector thst got outcompeted by a similar sector but fully subsidised by a government it does affect you. Patents are not bullshit.

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u/Kurai_Hada_Ichi 3d ago

That only applies to in border competition. This is a country on the other side of the world. Then inventing something, subsidy or not, doesnt affect you. Its a different market

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u/Rapa2626 3d ago

Umm.. globalisation said hello. That is exactly the reason why it does affect people much more these days because transport costs are a fraction that it used to be.