It is great for a country like Finland to ramp up their education system and create a nation of knowledge workers like much of the western world has done, but the fact is that knowledge work only goes so far in the supply chain. At some point, manufacturing work has to be done, mining work, farming work, packing work. You can design the best chip in the world, but it is all theoretical until it is able to be produced and only useful to the designer if once it is produced, there is access to it.

When manufacturing and material supply chains are spread globally and often through high disparity of conditions, there are bound to be problems. When under centralized control, coercion (physical and economic) can be used to ensure supply, but eventually, after the continual process of "optimization" progresses that force increasingly poor conditions on suppliers of goods, service and labor, rebellion starts, coups become an option. At a single country level, we have seen this many times, where a government has been overthrown by force, but what is starting to happen now is the overthrowing of centralization as a concept itself.

What is happening in Australia is the realization that "renting" critical resources globally is fast becoming an unviable option and instead, ownership needs to return to Australia of key products and industries. While this looks like a centralization into a country (which it is) the ownership itself is decentralized throughout the country. This mitigates the risk of collapse through the loss of some points, as others can pick up the slack and as a whole, the entire network benefits. And even though there are a range of outcomes for individuals, the chance of a single individual becoming insanely wealthy is low, as in order to be successful, collaboration with other owners is needed, not renting just employees.

Dear my friend Hive account@tarazkp , It is difficult for an East Asian person like me to understand your wonderful thoughts. However, I understood you argued that Australia should grow manufacturing.

I want to talk about Australia from the perspective of East Asians.
I hope you understand my awkward English first.😅

Perhaps, You may remember the fact that the Japanese Empire invaded Australia during World War II.
At the time, to the Japanese, Australia was perceived as an agricultural country without heavy industry. Because Australia could not build its own carriers, warships and submarines, the Japanese thought that Australia would fall to the Japanese invasion.

In particular, from the Japanese point of view, Australia was expected to be used as a bridgehead for the United States, so it invaded Australia with the aim of severing the network between Australia and the United States.

From the point of view of East Asians, including Japan, Australia is now recognized as an agricultural country as a bridgehead for the US domination of the Pacific Ocean.

My awkward English expression may be appropriate, but from the point of view of East Asian countries like China and Japan, Australia would be understood in a similar position to Finland.

Perhaps, From the perspective of powerful Asian empires such as Japan and China, Australia will be understood as a Finnish-level country with weak self-defense.

I hope my kind friend Hive account@tarazkp will understand my awkward English expression!