China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership

Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by sudosysgen on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:11AM (#24144152)

I never understood this line of argument. Economics is 100% inextricable from realpolitik. Whether you have a socially constructed economic right or not is 100% a question of realpolitik.

Also, private property simply isn't a natural right, not even by the definition of Hobbes. The right of exclusion of something you don't use is neither natural nor universal in most early human civilizations, it just simply isn't a natural right.

And intellectual property in particular is perhaps the opposite of a natural right.

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by DetroitThrow on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:06PM (#24149155)

Locke ran with Life, Liberty, and Estate but even the American founding fathers went with the idea that Estate is an socioeconomic construct for the purpose of "freedom".

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