Unexpected crossover episode between Sagar from BP and David P Goldman. The panel tries to brainstorm a way for the US to stay competitive and don’t have much except that we should encourage China investment, the typical American cope about the West being more “creative” and leap frogging China.
While it’s probably true that Western liberal culture, encourages more risk-taking, counterintuitive approaches than with Asian conservative, incremental mindset, it’s no guarantee of success. If anything, delusion and degeneracy are often the product of enabling individuals too freely. That’s why you have a society full of karens complaining, mass shootings and people pushing castration for self affirmation. After all, there is a thin line between madness and genius.
What most Americans don’t realize is how much times have changed. The US lacks the resources to grow and nurture its talent as it once did, and now China has the necessary capital, knowledge and infrastructure to easily poach talent or quickly adapt to new ideas and push out competition with 2nd mover advantage.