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All the big consumer drone makers are in China. I love how all sorts of unregulated surprisingly powerful tech comes out of China. The last mischief they engaged in was way too powerful lasers. They just don't have the fear of science in that country like we have in America.

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Nothing more exciting then a unregulated wild west. Especially for a place like China with 2x the driver mortality rate of the US, staggering deaths caused by pollution and industrial accidents and swathes of land irreparably polluted.

And of course the Chinese love it. That's why they are desperate for Western products like baby milk formula, vitamins and services in the health and old age sectors.

But of course the US is totally scared of science. What with being the hub of almost all successful startups.

It's all good until you fall down an elevator shaft.

It's all invented here.

No it's not.

That's been less true in recent times. Nowadays the factories have moved up in the design chain towards remixing their own designs. There's also more than one hardware startup accelerator that flys founders to shenzen since it's so much more efficient to work locally.

And regarding this meta commentary of thinking that China as merely the assemblers of american inventors, remember that this was thought of Japan and korea in the 70s and 80s, which now produce some good quality cars and TVs, respectively. I wonder if engineers at GM or Zenith (last great american TV brand) scoffed and thought the same in 1980.

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