[agloe_dreams]

A key element in the US is that VC is a poison. With growth at all costs as a priority, many US companies are focused on getting whomever is willing to push sales over all else, this generally requires a name with a history of success so most internal hires are out. Also, most of these companies won't exist in 20 years to have someone whom has been there for 20 years.

[mustafa_pasi]

But the US is still performing better on all metrics:

1. more innovation 2. high economic growth 3. better salaries

Whatever you are doing works.

[polygamous_bat]

> 1. more innovation

How do we quantify it? And how do we know that it is not the result of metric-hacking, as the GP commented, and is actually true "innovation"?

> 2. high economic growth

Same as above.

> 3. better salaries

Only for a small slice of the population. Income inequality is growing across the country, and it is not an obviously good thing if a small fraction of the country is getting boundlessly richer while the rest of the country/world suffers.

[kla-s]

That is a very special set of metrics and one could argue the opposite using e.g. social and environmental externalities (social safety net/ energy consumption pP...).

The other thing is, is there more real innovation going on or is this just some local hyper optimization of making the numbers go up?

I don`t claim to be the judge/arbiter on this matter, guess i`m glad we can compare both on this world