He was very adamant that this is the case, but he’s not some dipshit who gets all his info from reactionary sources, so I’m wondering where he got that specific number from. Anyone heard of it? The “60 years behind” thing I mean?

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That’s pretty much what I was thinking yeah. I’m fairly certain he got this from someone at his job, where they build all sorts of hi-tech electronic shit for fucks know who or what.

Just wondering where it originated from, I did a google on it and literally nothing showed up. So I suppose someone he works with just pulled it out of their own ass and he fell for it?

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As soon as they hand it off to the factory in China to produce, it sure ain’t gonna stay a secret. ;) Six months later the market will be flooded with copies and they won’t have a leg to stand on because they think American laws extend everywhere on the planet.

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he might be quoting some decade old estimate on semiconductors or something idk

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This is the reply that makes sense.

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Now ask if China steals all of the west’s technology

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He did kinda start getting into that, but I managed to cut that shit off by asking him why that would even matter. He didn’t have an answer.

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Meritocratic thinking. But of course almost no one doing the hard work of implementing solutions and solving problems in tech is adequately compensated relative to the profits their work creates.

I mean actual solutions, not like apps and shit.

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I love that complaint.

Like yeah? So? If you don’t like it manufacture your shit in America. Imagine giving a shit about Intellectual property theft.

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Oh no! China is stealing all our military secrets!

Good, maybe they’ll build military hardware that will make Washington think twice about starting a genocidal, apocalyptic WWIII.

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How would you even measure that? Consumer electronics sales? What year is the TV from? How many TVs do 1.4 billion people need to catch up with how many TVs per 0.3 billion people? How many HDR TVs per 4K TV? How many average TVs per meter of high speed train? It’s just nonsense on its face.

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How would you even measure that?

Pretty much what I was thinking. I’m sure you could twist some numbers into fitting that definition, but yeah.

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:cope:

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:xi-lib-tears:

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Lol, he has but not a regular user so that’s not it.

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