The idea of intellectual property and that you shouldn't like pirate songs, for example. And when it comes to China or a lot of Asian countries in particular, the bias is more towards the community than it is towards the individual. It's not because they're amoral. It's because the cultural values just have never really countenance this idea there being this individual that individuals have any sort of right to that sort of thing.
Ben and James discuss Xiaomi’s ambition to own the home, why we’re frustrated with patents, why the West is unfair to the developing world, and what makes China unique.
Links
- Jordan Lewis: Exponent Bingo – Twitter
- Ben Thompson: Xiaomi’s Ambition – Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Handicapping the Internet of Things – Stratechery
- When Charles Dickens fell out with America – BBC
- To Live (The film about the Cultural Revolution) – Wikipedia
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