The American challenge

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1. PaulHouleOct 2024
   The world has to wake up. We need a second source after DJI for drones. I think of this book

   https://www.amazon.com/American-Challenge-Jean-Jacques-Serva...

   which pointed out in the late 1960s that Europe was going to fall behind in aviation if they were going to insist that Italian airlines are going to fly Italian airliners and that Europe was only going to be relevant if it took the Airbus route.

   In the case of drones there is DJI and then there is... For all the talk of industrial policy, the RoW badly needs another drone maker.

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2. madspindelMay 2021
   "In thirty years America will be a post-industrial society with a per capita income of $ 7,500. There will be only four work days a week of seven hours per day. The year will be comprised of 39 work weeks and 13 weeks of vacation. With weekends and holidays this makes 147 work days a year and 218 free days. All this within a single generation."

   From The American Challenge by Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber published in 1967.

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3. madspindelJun 2019
   "In thirty years America will be a post-industrial society with a per capita income of $ 7,500. There will be only four work days a week of seven hours per day. The year will be comprised of 39 work weeks and 13 weeks of vacation. With weekends and holidays this makes 147 work days a year and 218 free days. All this within a single generation."

   From The American Challenge by Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber published in 1967. Too bad this will never happen since most managers are workaholics.

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4. JugurthaJun 2015
   Yes! There are certain countries that deal with these matters in a way that's alien to the rest of us. It appears that Japan has an interesting way, too.

   As a side note, speaking of governement.. as a teenager, one of the books that were laying around was "The American Challenge" (Le Défi Américain) by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. It was a parallel between European countries and the U.S.A. It also addressed the Japanese and Swedish models, the technology gap (he warned that if Europe let the U.S. get ahead, there will be a time where the gap is simply too big to cross).

   It is a very interesting book.

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