I play an RTS game called Age of Empires 2, and even if a civilization was an age behind in tech it could still outboom and out-economy another civ if the population ratio was 1 billion : 300 Million. Like it wouldn’t even be a contest. I don’t understand why China or India wouldn’t just spam students into fields like STEM majors and then economically prosper from there? Food is very relatively cheap to grow and we have all the knowledge in the world on the internet. And functional computers can be very cheap nowadays, those billion-population countries could keep spamming startups and enterprises until stuff sticks.
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let me put it to you in video games terms
10x the population doesn’t equal 10x the resources
10x the population produce 10x less stability so they need 10x the governance
10x the governance Hinder innovations and progress because it favor stability and assurance over risks and uncertainty
to gave you example from my own life a friend of mine made an innovation in biotech , here in egypt pop (112mill) it got laughed out of the collages because using fish parts to help patients breath is Ludacris and got threaten by the goverment and his crime non offically is “too smart for his own good” , he travel to EU insteed of threats he get a doctorate, showered with praise and published in various news article and get a patented and monetarily rewarded for his work
what make USA great thats its Literally capitalist to its core , meanwhile all other countries while Claiming they are capitalists they are infact filled with communist
idealism thats just a mask for the natural corruption that happen when you have 10x the government
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