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Originally Posted by HansTWN
They will --- and just like with drugs it will be they themselves that will hurt the most. If IP will not be respected in the West when the "cool kids" grow up then there won't be many jobs left for them except to work at Walmart, McDonald's, or some other similar establishment. Because everything the West excels at (ideas rather than manufacturing) will not be worth anything.
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Nobody ever said that paradigm shifts in society are easy. It wasn't easy during the industrial revolution, and it won't be during the equally fundamental shift happening today with the information revolution. You want to cling desperately to the old system-- I say "burn, baby burn."