A big part of their success today is embracing globalism, beginning with the Westernization effort in the Meiji era and continuing into the present era with top Japanese firms becoming multinational, eg Nintendo/Sony of America, Toyota opening plants in the US, etc.
Communism, on the other hand, seems to have led to more isolation in the Cold War era, and is also another way to cultivate some interesting cultural identity, although not necessarily the culture you want.
Remember what you replied to: "Can change just be advocated for something out of our own interest instead of using the "Chinese" boogeyman? Is that a possibility?"
If you hadn't disingenuously replied to that comment by asking us to reread your comment, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Lost history. You probably know the reasons. Many cultures within relied heavily on knowledge keepers, or griots, which was a perfectly fine system until it wasn't.
> I'm increasingly coming to the view that there is a big split among "software developers" and AI is exacerbating it
This is admittedly low effort but the vast majority of devs are paid wages to "write CRUD, git push and magic" their way to the end of the month. The company does not afford them the time and privilege of sitting down and analyzing the code with a fine comb. An abstraction that works is good enough.
The seasoned seniors get paid much more and afforded leeway to care about what is happening in the stack, since they are largely responsible for keeping things running. I'm just pointing out it might merely be a function of economics.
I probably need to do more research but how did women of noble bearing deal with illness and childbirth? I would suppose midwives amd women with knowledge of "medicine" could exist to serve those high level clientele.
