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Software is a hit-based business on which winners scale very large, very fast. All other things (education, market) being equal, the biggest pool should genera

Software is a hit-based business on which winners scale very large, very fast. All other things (education, market) being equal, the biggest pool should generate the most hits, and the most advancement.

jomamaxx 10y ago
"All other things (education, market) being equal, the biggest pool should generate the most hits, and the most advancement. reply" The problem is there are many, many, many factors. Too many to count. 'Education' - even that is hardly comparable. Rote learning/memorization, a culture of copying vs. a culture of learning in innovation. I'm not saying one is better or that one country is necessarily more of the other, just giving one small example of quite radically differentiation even in one comparable vertical. It's really hard to compare US and China tech side by side. I think it's best to just look at them independently.