Once again I am asking why the Anglo Americans don’t use that white supremacy, freedom and liberal democracy and ashkenazi IQ to innovate better? Why do they have to steal from closed Confucian societies which I was told in the 90s, could never innovate?
Let’s not fall into the same quasi-racist nonsense that is dooming the Anglos.
Every race and people have equal innate capacity for learning and innovation. There are two main glass ceilings that prevent the vast majority from reaching their potential. They are vastly different, but are actually two sides of the same coin.
The first major obstacle is a lack resources. In this I mean resource at all levels of society from pre-birth nutritional inadequacies through poor to no primary and secondary education all the way to a lack of funding and cutting edge research facilities at universities and in industries. All of that is why is has been so hard for anyone to break the west’s stranglehold on high technology from a low base.
However, now that China has managed to breach that first glass ceiling, it has actually revealed a previously hidden second glass ceiling that is crippling the Anglos and which they are currently unable to breach - resource allocation.
The west’s worship of their new god the Market has meant that they have basically relinquished all attempts to manage and co-ordinate resource allocation at the nation state level as High Heresy.
The problem is that the new High Priests in charge of the new Church of the Holy Market doesn’t know shit about economics, or worse purposefully ignore the basic rules in order to personally profit.
The Market which the west so worships unquestionably only works when some frankly ridiculous preconditions are met. Impossibilities such as perfect knowledge, zero entry and exist costs, large number of sellers all making basically the same thing etc. So their perfect market only exists in theory. In reality the best you can get is a rough approximation. But even that approximation only works when you try to get as close as possible to those underlying assumptions and base requirements.
What inevitably happens when the government takes such a hands off approach is that monopolies start to emerge. Once a previously competitive company has managed to destroy or acquire all competitors, it stops innovating and starts price gouging its customers. Even where there is still multiple major players, usually they form cartels and price fix and limit competition. This capping of competition then unleashes nepotism and cronyism at all levels where people are parachuted into positions of high power because of who their mommies and daddies are instead of what they can do. These idiots then make idiot decisions wasting resources and time while also ruthlessly purging companies of all talent and competence to eliminate possible threats to their own undeserved positions. Basically a speed run of how bad Dynasties die.
This is a key reason why Chinese new entrants are so challenging to established western brands. The Chinese challengers are all veteran survivors of the most hyper competitive market in the world. So they needed to be extremely good to last long enough and grow big enough to go abroad. And once abroad they generally start to eat the lunches of all of the western local companies that have grown fat and complacent and weak.
This is why the western mega corps are playing their final trump card (potentially literally in Agent Orange wins again) - state capture. See Tiktoc as just the most recent and most obvious example. But the Americans have always played that dirty even against their own allies and servants like the Japanese and French.
Indeed, we can see that this rot isn’t actually a new thing either, as corporate America had to get American Government Daddy to come and castrate the Japanese for them because of how badly the Japanese were showing them up and eating their lunch back in the 80s, even before the Cold War ended.
This, more than anything, is a core reason why the west needs to fall for humanity to advance. Because the west as it is, simply will not allow anyone to do better than them even as they weaken and stagnate. The western elite will never voluntarily look to do better themselves and will only obsess about keeping everyone else down worse then themselves so that they can cling to their last shred of legitimacy by saying yeah sure things are fucked here at home, but it’s worse everywhere else, so such up, be grateful and keep voting for me!