alt Hacker NewsWe have very different definitions of innovation.
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Please, stop lying on the internet. It's not healthy. Stop making things up.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/innovation
Making cars faster or cheaper isn't an "innovation". Making a flying car is innovation. Inventing the car is invention.
Systematic government-aided intellectual property theft, lax labor laws, low wages and low standards of living aren't innovative.
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cpursley • today at 8:00 PM
Your understanding of the situation is over a decade out of date. The Chinese are outright innovating at this point, they are well past the copy-paste stage. If you'd like to catch up, this is a good place to start:
https://www.youtube.com/@Wheelsboy/videos
And btw, they are making flying cars as well:
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The word you are looking for is "invention". Innovation instead means exactly refining and improving existing things.