• iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    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!