[matheusmoreira]

> The amount of effort to create a forgery of a Louis Vuitton bag seems to have so much less effort/payoff ratio than create a fake IC or create parts with low grade steel.

> Specially considering that you are risking lives and will most likely be chased for liability

I read an interesting book about this once: Poorly Made in China. Author tells stories of chinese factories manipulating the quality of products such as steel. The factories would gradually reduce the amount of each steel component. They'd use a little bit less iron than they need to, then a little bit less chromium... They'd gradually cut costs by manipulating quality, pocket the difference, become wealthier, all while passing the risk down to their western buyers. Nothing happened immediately, nobody even noticed until some steel scaffolding collapsed, workers fell to their deaths, someone tried to figure out what was going on and noticed the steel chemistry was all over the place.

People sociopathic enough to do stuff like this could not care less about lives or deaths. What matters is rising in life, getting rich. Life, death, safety, risk? Somebody else's problems.

[genmud]

It’s insane to watch YouTube on some of the industrial “promotional” videos from China and India. Like if you look up videos of really any manufacturing, you see shit that simply would never fly in Europe or the US because we don’t tolerate having stuff in factories that will eventually maim or kill someone.

Like if people doesn’t care about killing their coworkers they work with and can see, they sure as shit don’t care about dangerous practices that impact someone they don’t know.