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by ffhhj 1521 days ago
That's really interesting. Germany > Japan > China all of them became tech powers. So the moral is copy, sell, develop, ..., profit!
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simonblack 1521 days ago
But then, if you go back far enough, it was

  United States > Germany > Japan > China
The US got its own start by copying and ripping off British IP in the early 1800s.

https://apnews.com/article/b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88dc53

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