In Duanmu Huai's view, Huang Qian Jiu Mei Zi was actually suffering from the most common ailment among Japanese people—overthinking.
In fact, many Japanese people had this habit. Mary had complained to him about it before, saying that when she was at school, she would sometimes offer an opinion, and although the other students were interested, the question they most often had on their lips was... What if it failed?
Declaring defeat before the battle had even begun could be called a deep-rooted flaw of the Japanese. It was like that not only in schools but in society as well. Whether it was digitizing the identity system, adding more surveillance cameras, or switching to electronic currency, there would always be people who came forward to object. Their thought processes were all the same.
What if it failed?
For example, would digitizing the identity system lead to people's identities being misused?
Could electronic currency cause harm?
Most importantly, if something went wrong, who would be responsible for bowing, apologizing, and stepping down?
To Duanmu Huai, change was simply like this: whether a new system had problems or not, you would only know after using it. But the Japanese clearly did not think that way. Otherwise, they would not still be using five-inch floppy disks to install Windows 10 and fax machines to send documents in the smartphone era.
When asked, they said that the laws of their ancestors could not be changed, but to put it bluntly, they simply did not want to take the lead and bear responsibility themselves.
After all, under the current system, if something went wrong, then the system was at fault. But if something went wrong because of your own proposal, then you were at fault!
That was why Duanmu Huai became furious when he saw