China to Europe: You are just too damn lazy.

Discussion in 'Economics' started by Grandluxe, Oct 30, 2011.

  1. dtan1e

    dtan1e

    i'm talking about the chinese as in china, the ones that go abroad tend to become of western influenced, just like you can't compare that knowing what u know now u be making decisions the same way as when u are 10 years younger
     
    #41     Oct 31, 2011
  2. bone

    bone

    Those are not sound bites, he is just stating the obvious facts. No logical person could dispute his central premise, or the metrics from the IMF and World Bank for that matter.
     
    #42     Oct 31, 2011
  3. bone

    bone

    Speaking as an engineer myself by training, when was that ? Certainly not in the 20th Century.
     
    #43     Oct 31, 2011
  4. Banjo

    Banjo

  5. heech

    heech

    Japan is a much better example.
     
    #45     Oct 31, 2011
  6. What? Are we to understand that 28-hr work weeks, 3-day weekends, 6-weeks paid vacation each year... are "not working hard enough"? That sitting on your ass on the beach.. mostly paid for on the "public dime".. is not the path to prosperity?
     
    #46     Oct 31, 2011
  7. bone

    bone

    #47     Oct 31, 2011
  8. bone

    bone

    Spot on. Engineering-wise and including the commentary about the longer term efficacy of the welfare state.

    The free enterprise system is certainly not fair. But in terms of the broadest benefit to a collective society as a whole, it beats the living shit out of socialism.

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    #48     Oct 31, 2011
  9. hoffmanw

    hoffmanw

    Why build things from ground up when you can copy thing from others and improve them through R&D? It is simply too costly to develop everything on your own. All companies will go bankrupt immediately if they don’t copy things from others. Do you know what innovations mean? Most techs we have today have innovated from ancient China inventions.


    Airplane is an innovation from kites which invented by ancient Chinese.

    http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blearlyflight.htm


    Helicopter too is an innovation from Chinese bamboo flying toys which invented in China thousands years ago.

    "The earliest references for vertical flight have come from China. Since around 400 BC,[7] Chinese children have played with bamboo flying toys,[8][9] and the 4th-century AD Daoist book Baopuzi (抱朴子 "Master who Embraces Simplicity") reportedly describes some of the ideas inherent to rotary wing aircraft:[10]..."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter



    Is Apple iPad a copy of Chinese Device P88?
    http://www.buzzom.com/2010/01/is-apple-ipad-a-copy-of-chinese-device-p88/


    Chinese ‘iPad’ Maker Threatens to Sue Apple for Plagiarism
    http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/chinese-ipad-maker-threatens-to-sue-apple-for-plagiarism/
     
    #49     Oct 31, 2011
  10. Capitalism is NOT zero sum.
    Globalization is zero sum.
     
    #50     Oct 31, 2011