bountyhunter
- Joined Sep 7, 2009
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And there are way too many people selling a $30 item for $1 because they produce it without experiencing any of the development costs or pay any royalties because they just rip off the work of others and clone them. DVDs are really cheap to make when they just set up machines to copy them by the tens of thousands. You can make them for 20 cents each, so $1 gives you a good profit.Trading an 1 dollar item for 30 dollar- there are too many people involved who actually do nothing but live off that difference.
And when they ignore other people's patents, they can make stuff really cheap and the poor guy that spent all his own money developing the device is just screwed because his price has to reflect the fact he is trying to recover his development costs and he doesn't have the "advantage" of the cost savings possible using prison (forced) labor or child labor.
There are lots of reasons some places can make stuff really cheap.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/world/americas/07iht-piracy.1909766.html?_r=0
http://www.mcandrews-ip.com/files/article/china_patent_protection.pdf
http://www.eiris.org/blog/is-made-in-china-prison-labour-free/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/world/asia/china-labor-camp-halloween-sos/
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jan/25/apple-child-labour-supply
http://www.clb.org.hk/en/content/chinas-economy-grows-so-does-chinas-child-labour-problem
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