07-12-2022, 01:50 PM
(07-11-2022, 11:47 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(07-11-2022, 01:45 PM)David Horn Wrote: OK, how about Nokia and Ericsson in the telecom space, Ikea in furniture, H&M in clothing, Skanska in constructon, ABB in energy, Scania in commercial vehicles, Volvo in personal ones, Electrolux in appliances, Atlas Copco in mining and drilling equipment, and I haven't even mentioned the big military contractors that build jets, submarines and just about all of the Nordic nations arms. Note: most are Swedish, because the Finnish companies are big but less well known. In any case, here's a list of Finnish companies, and one of Swedish companies.
Just for reference, neither of these countries is large in the populatiion sense. Sweden has just over 10 Million, and Finalnd has just over 5.5 Million. Together, they have fewer citizens than New York state ... by a lot!
This is an impressive amount of data. I will concede, I may have under-estimated them a bit, but America's entrepreneurial tradition is still on a whole other level. Millions of the most ambitious immigrants have traveled to our shores for hundreds of years just to get in on the action.
Realize, these two small natiions are just that -- small. For the US to do as well, we would need a list nearly 30 times the combined lists of these two countries. I doubt we're there.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.