While I tend to agree with you, I find the Japanese are incredibly innovative and they are not growing. Maybe I should look at the rate of innovation and see if that has stalled out with population growth?

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nradov a day ago | parent | next [-]

Which major disruptive innovations have come out of Japan lately?

	▲	jpadkins a day ago \| parent [-]
		Not major disruptive innovations, but the gadgets that do all kinds of little quality of life things. They have innovative solutions to so many of the small things in life. And a society where you can invent and bring to market quirky little products that do cool stuff.

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jimbokun a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Perhaps.

To me it feels like their most rapid period of innovation was post World War II as the population was growing very rapidly.