Yeah I moved to Asia from Europe, and I dont think it's the lack of imagination that make us so slow, inefficient, unable to compete abroad etc. Or else here in

Yeah I moved to Asia from Europe, and I dont think it's the lack of imagination that make us so slow, inefficient, unable to compete abroad etc. Or else here in China we'd still be cutting wood and milking cow: there's very little "imagination". But the systems are built differently, usually turned specifically to succeed fast and loud at the cost of individual comfort. For instance, where I come from in France, you would keep a useless, even toxic, employee for months for fear of the firing trial, but where I am now we can all be dismissed arbitrarily with a month notice, and that makes the hiring very different: people have a strict behavior feedback loop, where they need to change to stay somewhere, companies have no pressure on lowering hiring because of legal issues, employees can always always find better. This turns a population of mild puppies into a fastly rotating workforce cross pollinating at light speed and I admit I think Europe can never win against people who built such systems. It's just not the same game anymore.