Why are Wenzhou people better at doing business than Northeast people?

Many years ago, a black man asked Diamond, an American bird scientist,

Why do you white people invent our planes, cars and steam engines, while we black people seem to have invented nothing? Why is Europe so developed and Africa so backward?

Diamond was stumped.

Ladies and gentlemen, have you thought about this question:

The earth is so big. Why do words appear in some places? Why are there no words in some places until now? Why are some local economies so developed? Why are some still primitive and backward? Or why Wenzhou people do business better than Northeast people?

After reading "Guns, Germs and Steel" written by Diamond, friends may find the answer from the book.

This book was published in 1997, and the author tried to explain such a problem with the origin of human beings.

What is the answer in this book?

He believes that the reason why different continents and different societies develop differently is not the biological difference of human beings! It's not that white people are smarter than black people, and yellow people are smarter than red people!

There is not much racial difference, so what is the biggest difference?

Diamond's research says it is the difference of mainland environment.

Because your place is suitable for growing grain, the population will gather. When the population gathers, the political system will be established and the state form will appear. Because of the dense population, there will be competition, and families, tribes and countries will gradually evolve.

Then the competition between people will bring technological progress.

Suppose that the earth was full of animals a long time ago, but slowly some animals were domesticated, such as pigs, horses and sheep.

These domesticated animals are actually concentrated in nine regions of the earth. And these areas first became the nine rural areas of agriculture and animal husbandry! Then these aborigines had language, words, and later, steel cannon germs, steel!

All right. Now back to our original question!

How much influence does the environment have on people?

Why are some local economies so developed and others so backward?

Friends who have been to Wenzhou should have such an image, and you will find that people here can do business and are all businessmen!

Then you go to the northeast, and you will find that people there seem to lack a little business genes.

Why? In fact, it is very simple, brought by the environment!

You go to Wenzhou and sit in a small restaurant. Someone tells you that the wool production in Inner Mongolia has dropped sharply recently. People next to you will respond that the fur business in Kazakhstan seems to be good, and then people behind you will say, do you want to lend me some money? I happen to have some money to lend you recently.

When you grow up, people around you are doing business. You have the genes to do business. Because so many people are doing business, even in a few industries, you will gradually get familiar with these industries. Slowly, this wave of people will control this industry.

The last sentence.

Many people around me will ask how to choose a city to go to college or work.

Then I'll tell you, from the environmental determinism in Diamond's book, when you are young, you'd better go to a big city that you like and make your blood boil, enter a high-growth industry, and then enter a great big company. If you can be regarded as the pioneer team of this company, congratulations, you may be the one who entered the optimal environment.