To me it’s clear in the concluding paragraph: > The situations of Asian countries and the United States differ sub­stantially in the details, but both face the

To me it’s clear in the concluding paragraph: > The situations of Asian countries and the United States differ sub­stantially in the details, but both face the same core problem: how to offer as many people as possible a decent job with a family wage. The argument is everything stems from this failing (declining birth rates, cutthroat testing culture, woke language games to signal elite status etc)