Counterfeit Goods

Stolen from Lance.

I am not a hippie, while I despise having to pay thousands of dollars for designer clothes and excessive amounts of money for food, I also understand that people need to make money. That's fine, everyone's in the same game.

I was just thinking about counterfeit goods, you would assume the counterfeit goods you get in China, where it is in abundance really, is fake. Why is it considered fake though? Sometimes the factories make excessive amounts of clothing and sell them on the streets. Even paying 100 usd for each item would be a lot more than they would receive just being paid to make them. If they were made in the same factory, why are they fake? The reasonable assumption to this would be that the designers don't get paid for their design however, what design is really worth a thousand fucking dollars? What materials and design really cost a few thousand dollars? Then again, overpricing shit is the basis of making any decent money. Kudos to them, one day I will make my own bag design and sell it for a million dollars. Probably not.