But that’s exactly what happened when HK was a British colony. People worked hard back then and built up HK. Besides, that's exactly the kind of thinking that

But that’s exactly what happened when HK was a British colony. People worked hard back then and built up HK. Besides, that's exactly the kind of thinking that makes people stuck: when all you can think of is how your hard work will benefit The Man, when instead you could be benefitting yourself and society as a whole, regardless of what The Man gets from it.