* One of the upsides of living in SWPLville is that the Uber drivers tend to be retired white guys. The guy who has picked me up a half-dozen times is a retiree whose wife still works and he was bored. He lives 3 blocks from my house. Fine by me.
The last cab I took from the airport was piloted by an incoherent African whom I had to direct to my destination, 20 minutes and 3 towns away.
* The reason the Japanese are so innovative is because their land is so poor in resources, the only thing they had in quantity was wood, even stone was relatively rare. This forced the Japanese to pay attention to the detail and innovate to save on the use of the rare resources. They are genetically close to the Han people that populated all of China and Korea, but not everything (even in the HBD world) is about genes, the environment also plays a role.
On that topic, many Americans believe they are superior because of their constitution or other such universal abstractions, but if Japan and America swapped lands then the Japanese would have easily won any conflict with America.
