And while many Chinese engineers may not graduate with M.I.T.-level skills, the best are world class, and there are a lot of them. There are 1.4 billion people there. That means that in China, when you are a one-in-a-million talent, there are 1,400 other people just like you.
Total oversimplification. Yes, population is an important variable but so is education and employment. It does not matter if you have 1400 potential geniuses most of then are not being educated. It does not matter if you have 1400 potential geniuses if there are only a dozen positions in the economy relevant to their work. And more importantly, it really doesn’t matter if you have geniuses at all, because genius intellect is not how things get done.
In liberalspeak: you have to utilize your human capital to its full extent!
Besides, the focus on single genius individuals is liberal/patriarchal brainworms. It’s far better to have a team of well educated, smart, happy and collaborative people than to have lone savants working independently to feed their own inflated egos.
Total oversimplification. Yes, population is an important variable but so is education and employment. It does not matter if you have 1400 potential geniuses most of then are not being educated. It does not matter if you have 1400 potential geniuses if there are only a dozen positions in the economy relevant to their work. And more importantly, it really doesn’t matter if you have geniuses at all, because genius intellect is not how things get done.
In liberalspeak: you have to utilize your human capital to its full extent!
Yes, educate everyone and have 1 billion experts solving 1 billion problems. An Einstein is eventually among them
Besides, the focus on single genius individuals is liberal/patriarchal brainworms. It’s far better to have a team of well educated, smart, happy and collaborative people than to have lone savants working independently to feed their own inflated egos.
Our best and brightest go on to promising careers as labor parasites in the stock market