>"Again, here's HN with a Silicon Valley bias" Did you miss the opening sentence where the author states: "In the early 1990s, career advice in the United Sta

>"Again, here's HN with a Silicon Valley bias" Did you miss the opening sentence where the author states: "In the early 1990s, career advice in the United States changed." So yes the article is specifically talking about the US economy and not the global economy. >"Germany's Mittelstands are eating the world precisely by buckling this trend." The article is also referring specifically to publicly traded companies. I think that's pretty clear when the author states: "In general, to keep stock prices high ..." Germany's Mittelstands are largely family-owned companies, they are also not part of the US economy, ditto for some artisans in Northern Italy.