Some of you are aware that a Japanese think tank has predicted Taiwan will overtake Japan in wealth by 2030.
A Japanese immigrant in Taiwan said that the slow, deliberate, attention-to-detail, risk-averse Japanese way of doing things is out of style in this internet age. The Taiwanese way of jumping on the first step will lead to more success.
In support, he cited Panasonic’s founder, who said that you only need to be 60% sure to be an entrepreneur, which he says should sound obvious to Taiwanese.
It’s an interesting theory, not least because China’s economic rise was predicated on an outsize dose of chabuduo. There is, it seems, no limit to the amount of cheap, useless shit you can flog on the world market, but the niche for clever, expensive stuff is rather small.
OTOH I don’t think Taiwan is capable of doing either cheap-and-disposable or excellent-and-longlasting. This country is the taint of Asia. And the age of trying-and-failing using oodles of funny money magicked into existence is probably over. Add to that the disastrous impact of Taiwan’s disengagement from the rest of Planet Earth during 2020/2021, and it looks to me like Taiwan is going to sink into obscurity (and probably a prolonged recession).
At best, they’re going to be a bit player in the New World Order. At worst they’ll just be quietly subsumed into Greater China and nobody will even notice or care.
No, but… He is right because people dont give 2 shits but it seems a sociological related prediction not at all an engineering one. Its sad. Japan kinda dug its own grave when they decided 10 guys digging (and filling haha) a hole became “smart”.
In this sense, taiwans lack of fucks given whilst still claiming to care about human rights and concerns puts it right in that goldie locks zone for the next couple decades of retarded consumers totally missing the point. It certainly is, at least temporarily, profitable…Gong Xi
