It is quite shocking and fascinating to see Fuyao change from some simple numbers (dividend ratio, P/E ratio, etc.) and occasional news reports (Cao Dewang has run away!) into real images, characters, and stories.
The Magical Realism of Cultural Differences
- Needless to say about the cultural differences between the US and China
- In fact, even Silicon Valley looks at Ohio, Beijing looks at Fuqing, and investment looks at industry. It feels a bit like another world
- In addition, the CEO of Fuyao America is an old man in Beijing. He speaks a little bit incomprehensibly to Fujianese. This is also a part of cultural differences.
- Boss Cao has been able to deeply intervene in these many levels in his life, which is really magical (although he is narcissistic, he has indeed experienced legends, and he will think about his own merits and demerits in addition to being shrewd and strong)
Chinese can really endure hardship
- The extent to which pampered Americans can endure hardship
- Even Internet people or financial practitioners who joke that they are "migrant workers" should be ashamed for using this word as a metaphor for their work
- Managing such a format and such employees may only be the most efficient way of Boss Cao
Americans take for granted and take any right for granted
- Forget that everything has to consider the historical process, and it is not unheard of to see a capitalist America that is much more cruel than this, and the gentle capitalism that I enjoyed before is actually the product of the struggles of my predecessors (true bloodshed) and a specific historical period
- Don't think you have any problems, so you "deserve" $30 an hour, or should earn more than a manicure (though the market doesn't think so)
- I don't want my other choices to be worse, if I'm really "capable", the reward can be much higher than Fuyao
- Do not want to win or win more, even if it is legitimate to fight for your own rights, should you consider the company's position, after all, there is an egg under the nest (another example is Norma Rae really a man, although this film is famous, but Almost appeared to symbolize the decline of American production)
In the face of such soil and people, the Chinese take it for granted
- Considering the cultural differences between the two places, the Fuqing management system cannot be exported in the United States at all
- Whether to take into account that Americans are not as efficient as Chinese (or do multiple scenarios to show downside, likely, upside, etc.)
- Whether it has benchmarked the know-how of Japan and other countries building factories in the United States
- Should there be more bicultural talents like Beijing old man from the beginning?
- How did you plan it in the first place, such as being fooled, lack of natural consideration, or careful thinking (such as whether there are macro benefits that the excel expert can't consider, such as the risk of future trade frictions)
Although I know the film is definitely biased, but:
- Whether you can report more comprehensive facts, such as interviewing those who oppose Fuyao and those who support Fuyao, and talk about the UAW scandal before the election,
- Can you think about things other than interviews? For example, at the beginning, the 200 Chinese people only came for two years (or Bethune who only seeks risk and not reward), but in the end, there are still 200 Chinese people, and Lao Wang is in Ohio What does it mean to settle down?
- Can you do some quantification or thinking, such as benchmarking the pros and cons of the existence and non-existence of unions for all stakeholders instead of assuming that unions must be good
- The end of automation is quite nonsensical, and it has only a conceptual but no substantive relationship with the theme of the film (it is estimated that it is just a number extracted from reports such as McKinsey without looking at its method in detail)
- Finally quoted a comment from Zhihu: In complex socio-economic fields, justice without concrete feasible solutions is equivalent to extreme evil
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