3 ms·
> copy some striking behavioral traits not practiced in your little corner of the planet If only they did. Entrepreneurship, Great Universities, celebration o
by 908B64B197 4y ago
> copy some striking behavioral traits not practiced in your little corner of the planet
If only they did.
Entrepreneurship, Great Universities, celebration of failures (having 2 failed startups is seen as a badge of honor to VCs) and privately administered capital (low tax rate!) willing to take risk. These are the elements vital to any potential foreign Silicon Valley competitors and they only exist here in America.
All of the "Silicon Valley of X" initiatives I've seen were either led by bureaucrats with no ties to the valley or by who had little to no understanding of these fundamental traits. It was beanbag chairs and people writing JS on MacBooks (for 1/3 of what people who actually came to the valley made).
- college_physics 4y agoHa ha, yes this is harder to copy structure is what I was alluding to. But I think, that too, is a conventional reading that doesnt really explain the disparity between regions. Great universities, massive amounts of capital, reckless, lemming stylr investment behavior etc. exists in many places. Imho the key difference is a deep seated and essentially naive american belief in technology as a "force for good". This helps coordinate society and over time creates the conditions for significant breakthroughs. That naivete is in older parts of the world matched instead with lots of cynicism. They have seen waves upon waves of tech simply facilitate the next calamity. That cynical view is closer to the truth as we can see in how digital tech has become increasingly a force for evil. But the tragedy with tech is that "somebody will do it". You just hope it is eventually going to be shaped by societies that can control it and eliminate its worst implications