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I think the “race” part of it is somewhat necessary as long as we have a world that revolves around a handful of economic powerhouse nation-states.
It’s a conditional requirement of capitalism. If we were unified in working towards the advancement of humanity as a whole, money be damned…sure, that’d be great. Got a little work to do before we’re there, though. In the meantime, we’re competing towards pursuit of the all-mighty dollar. And yeah, that will always mean that the individual loses out, because dollars gotta come from somewhere.
But as long as we have a capitalistic society, we are always going to be at odds with the competition, i.e. China, which means no cooperation.
Furthermore, they seem to be way better at not giving a fuck about stealing IP than we are…if we make something, they clone it and make it cheap, but that never, ever happens in reverse.
Partly because they are a bit better equipped at this point for obtaining raw materials (to put it lightly) and they have a much less expensive labor force (to put it lightly).
China is where it is very explicitly because it spent a lot of time not trying to win any race. They’re still not trying to win it.
It’s massively more cost effective to fast follow in the wake of whomever is breaking new ground. Orders of magnitude.
China has been strategically losing races. Over and over. They understand there is no value in getting there first if you can be there 6 months later cheaper.
The race is made up. It’s an excuse to fuck YOU. YOU.
I think the “race” part of it is somewhat necessary as long as we have a world that revolves around a handful of economic powerhouse nation-states.
It’s a conditional requirement of capitalism. If we were unified in working towards the advancement of humanity as a whole, money be damned…sure, that’d be great. Got a little work to do before we’re there, though. In the meantime, we’re competing towards pursuit of the all-mighty dollar. And yeah, that will always mean that the individual loses out, because dollars gotta come from somewhere.
But as long as we have a capitalistic society, we are always going to be at odds with the competition, i.e. China, which means no cooperation.
Furthermore, they seem to be way better at not giving a fuck about stealing IP than we are…if we make something, they clone it and make it cheap, but that never, ever happens in reverse.
Partly because they are a bit better equipped at this point for obtaining raw materials (to put it lightly) and they have a much less expensive labor force (to put it lightly).
China is where it is very explicitly because it spent a lot of time not trying to win any race. They’re still not trying to win it.
It’s massively more cost effective to fast follow in the wake of whomever is breaking new ground. Orders of magnitude.
China has been strategically losing races. Over and over. They understand there is no value in getting there first if you can be there 6 months later cheaper.
The race is made up. It’s an excuse to fuck YOU. YOU.