Chinese counterfeiting
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22fake-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Corporate America lays off millions of US workers to move production overseas. They do this to make more money for themselves. Then the Chinese counterfeit all their products and keep all the money for themselves. Good! Serves them right.
All theses agencies fighting the issue -
National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center is the anticounterfeiting headquarters in the United States. Situated among short stacks of concrete office buildings in Arlington, Va., the center brings together representatives from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, the Food and Drug Administration, the F.B.I., the Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Postal Service, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and other government agencies. J. Scott Ballman, an immigration agent with short, sandy hair and a Tennessee accent, is the center’s deputy director.
The US is trying to stop the products from coming in the country. They should be forcing the Chinese government to stop making the products in the first place. The real issue is in China....not in the USA.
The Chinese government could stop all of this if they wanted too. After all it is happening out in the open. The point is their government doesn't want to stop it. Why would they. They are making money off it. It helps the Chinese economy. Corporate America is still coming over whether they counterfeit or not. So why stop it.
Meanwhile Dip sh*t Obama says -“Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people,” President Obama said in a speech in March. “But it’s only a competitive advantage if our companies know that someone else can’t just steal that idea and duplicate it with cheaper inputs and labor.” It is OK for US workers to lose out to cheaper labor. That is just how Capitalism works. But it is not alright for US companies to lose profits to the same cheaper labor. Hypocrisy!
It isn't even cheaper labor. It is the same cheap labor legitimate Chinese companies offer.
The difference is the Counterfeits don't demand the profit margin the US companies demand. The savings are in the profits.
US companies have no problem legitimizing laying off US workers so they can save money. They say it is the US consumer who demands cheaper prices. But when the fakes are offered for even cheaper suddenly this philosophy doesn't work anymore.
Works for me. I am thrilled.
Corporate America lays off millions of US workers to move production overseas. They do this to make more money for themselves. Then the Chinese counterfeit all their products and keep all the money for themselves. Good! Serves them right.
All theses agencies fighting the issue -
National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center is the anticounterfeiting headquarters in the United States. Situated among short stacks of concrete office buildings in Arlington, Va., the center brings together representatives from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, the Food and Drug Administration, the F.B.I., the Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Postal Service, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and other government agencies. J. Scott Ballman, an immigration agent with short, sandy hair and a Tennessee accent, is the center’s deputy director.
The US is trying to stop the products from coming in the country. They should be forcing the Chinese government to stop making the products in the first place. The real issue is in China....not in the USA.
The Chinese government could stop all of this if they wanted too. After all it is happening out in the open. The point is their government doesn't want to stop it. Why would they. They are making money off it. It helps the Chinese economy. Corporate America is still coming over whether they counterfeit or not. So why stop it.
Meanwhile Dip sh*t Obama says -“Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people,” President Obama said in a speech in March. “But it’s only a competitive advantage if our companies know that someone else can’t just steal that idea and duplicate it with cheaper inputs and labor.” It is OK for US workers to lose out to cheaper labor. That is just how Capitalism works. But it is not alright for US companies to lose profits to the same cheaper labor. Hypocrisy!
It isn't even cheaper labor. It is the same cheap labor legitimate Chinese companies offer.
The difference is the Counterfeits don't demand the profit margin the US companies demand. The savings are in the profits.
US companies have no problem legitimizing laying off US workers so they can save money. They say it is the US consumer who demands cheaper prices. But when the fakes are offered for even cheaper suddenly this philosophy doesn't work anymore.
Works for me. I am thrilled.
posted by res17 at
August 24, 2010
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