I can only say that I find it silly that you are suggesting things like German labor laws when it was a divided country, half literally communist, until 1990. F

I can only say that I find it silly that you are suggesting things like German labor laws when it was a divided country, half literally communist, until 1990. Far more likely that SV is largely a result of the US lead in semiconductors which could only happen beacause of winning, or not losing, WWII. Same is actually true of Sweden as well.