Authorship as Proof: Against “Made in China/Vietnam” IP Mimicry

Most people in the East will say, “We just want to learn.” Fine — but what happens after the collectivist learns? Too often: replication, not invention.

And there’s only one real reason to copy: it pays. They’ve opted into the very Western system they claim to resist because it compensates competence better than anything else on Earth - yet no new lanes of opportunity.

The deeper issue is this: copying isn’t flipping the board (no new lanes of opportunity). It’s playing inside someone else’s ruleset — safely, predictably, and without consequence.

I’m not interested in that lane.

I can flip the board.

I have flipped the board — in the hardest, most competitive market in the world.

That’s why my sympathy for imitation culture is basically zero.