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This is the capitalism copyright stole from us. The free market is felt vividly in Asian cities, true competition between bars, shops, cafes, services uncrippled by our taxes, licenses and regulations. This expresses itself just as sharply in the creative sphere, unhindered by artificial, regressive intellectual property laws. In Shenzen, a shopper can find any kind of hardware they want at cut-throat prices, or have hyper-specific models commissioned by largely automated factories (often to sell to shoppers): designs are copied freely, information flows unrestricted, evolving rapidly; innovation is frequent, prices rapidly drive downward while the market thrives. The US, instead, enforces artificial monopolies, leaving you to a very small selection of price-gouging megabrands, choking its own market and all potential for information.
The urbanism model employed in Seoul's non-central neighborhoods is exemplary: mid-rise stacks, 3-4 stories high; on each floor: 4-6 restaurants/shops occupying ever corner, a central staircase and shared restroom. Extremely cost-effective and high density, allowing for serious competition in any consumer area. Asian cities pack more bars & restaurants in a single neighborhood than many major American cities do across their entire city (Maybe not LA/NYC, but Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Atlanta, etc.).
The same market mechanisms and regulation-less environment are tellingly at play in the street fashion environment: the ugliness, banality, repetitiveness, tastelessness and limitedness of Western street fashion, all sold at premium, in contrast to liveliness, variety, good taste and availability of the East is a direct product of its genuinely free market. This is what the unadulterated info-market looks like, what was stolen and replaced by a hollow, dead structure.
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And NOTHING new has been introduced. If you want powerful, fast software, you use the stuff they coded 3-4 decades ago. Personal computing has not advanced.
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Our smartphones have thousands of times the power yet struggle to perform the same core tasks an average 90s PC handled fluidly - text editing & web browsing - with no meaningful features added. Our modern PC’s can barely perform those same tasks (with mainstream - even in the Linux community - software choices).
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