The most dependable car in the world is probably a Toyota Camry or a Toyota Prius. Yet, it is also the most boring car.

Why is it that the Japanese cannot innovate? My belief is that the Japanese back in the day were very much like how we see the Chinese today; they build their wealth through pure manpower, and their ability to subjugate the masses to obey orders. If you observe the Japanese society, it is one of the most subservient ones.

If you look at Japanese cameras, they are just iterations of already successful German cameras. It seems that all Japanese cameras are effectively a new iteration of the original Leica M camera.

Maybe the reason why Americans are so innovative is the vain desire to be unique. The disdain of following orders. This is why Americans are often seen as “lazy“, because Americans don’t like following orders.

If it was not for the radical audacity of Steve Jobs, technologically speaking, the world would be a lot uglier. The reason why Elon Musk is so innovative is that he has “Asbergers”. This is the source of his power.

Why Korean-Americans are so different from Koreans

I have also observed is that Korean, and Korean Americans are almost like from two different finance. They are not alike. We are not alike.

Why is that? A self-selecting thing; a lot of the original Korean American immigrants were entrepreneurial. And, because a lot of Korean Americans like myself who were born in the states were raised on American media, we ourselves also sought for individuality, rule breaking, and pursuing our life passions.

In Korea, it is very different. The goal is to become as wealthy as possible, by getting a good “chaebol” company job, ideally at Samsung or Hyundai.

The notion of becoming self-employed, or becoming an entrepreneur is not even an idea or notion in Korea. The only word I know is “arbeit”, which is a German-Korean word for part-time work, like tutoring English. Even my Korean mom didn’t know the Korean word for self-employed.

Also, whether the Koreans or Japanese like it or don’t like it, Koreans and Japanese are more similar than than dissimilar. Both are now pseudo-colonies of America.

After the IMF crisis in Korea, America essentially bailed them out. Also, the American military presence in South Korea. Japan has effectively surrendered itself to America after World War II.

Also to my understanding, Japan doesn’t have a military anymore. A country without a military cannot write its own rules.

We also now can see that Russia is no longer a threat; Russia wasn’t even strong enough militarily to subjugate Ukraine. Zero chance of Russia doing anything to America or China.

Also, America has nothing to really hear about China; the rich autocrats which run China are more interested in their personal wealth-getting, rather than military domination. Even the Chinese activities in Africa seem to be more about resource resources, to increase their own wealth.

The future will probably be more of a synthesis or a hybrid between the rich of America and China; Americans doing the innovating and the Chinese doing the production.

Apple innovating, and China producing.