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How are two of the most advanced manufacturing countries so backwards?
by typon 6y ago
How are two of the most advanced manufacturing countries so backwards?
- chaostheory 6y agoThis might be an over generalization, but the answer is in your question. Culturally, both places just don't respect digital as much as they love anything physical.
- AdrianB1 6y agoIt is a pendulum swing: these countries advanced a lot after WW2, then they believed they found the ideal way and got stuck there. In the meanwhile time flows linear, other countries were left behind but caught up and moved on. This way Japan and Germany still work well due to their excellent history, not recent trends.
- daemin 6y agoI would say more like they found a local maxima and stayed there, never going even slightly less efficient in order to find a higher maxima than the one they had. Kind of reminds me of which countries have the fastest/cheapest Internet access now. The countries that had Internet first tend to have shitty copper infrastructure and expensive plans, while the newer countries are all up with the latest fibre infrastructure and fast/cheap plans.
- AdrianB1 6y agoI don't think there is a need to go slightly less efficient in order to improve the current processes; they just got frozen in time and there are many such examples with companies and countries. Remember Japan is not the first time doing it, at the end of the shoguns era they were behind the rest of the world they were more advanced than.
- daemin 6y agoThere is always a dip in productivity when switching systems as you need to untrain people from the old and train them in the new system. Then you need to work out all the bugs and edge cases in the new system. So even if it will make you far more efficient there will be a temporary productivity slump as people get adjusted to it.