Incoherent rants

All these talks of the Chinese iPhone ripping off Apple's iPhone, the unfettered capitalism debate, and such.

Several commenters claimed that "lying about your product" is not capitalism, and that is what the Chinese iPhone is doing in this case, marketing itself as Apple with the Apple logo, and copying the icons.

Lying about your product is indeed the problem of unfettered capitalism, and I wouldn't put it past a large swath of Libertarians and some Republicans to think that this is the ideals of laissez-faire policy (no policy at all). After all, the consumers are expected to know which to trust, and if they bought the wrong thing, they should suffer their mistakes, without having safety net or other systems of socialism that the conservatives despise.

People with knowledge of history should be aware that food safety in government wasn't in effect until the beginning of the 20th Century, with the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration. Before that time, a cucumber colored with copper sulfate could be marketed as pickle, poisoning a large number of people in the process. This was just one of the many horror stories of the late 19th century, when the Industrial Age and its effect on modernism in literature was underway.

So, it is capitalism. It is also fair. Consumers will benefit from it. Innovation, however, will not, as Apple has worked many years to make the iPhone and deserves to reap the rewards. This will not provide incentives for innovation. This is more like communism, where doctors and assembly line workers are paid the same wage.