Na, bro! Today we call this "public private partnership" :-D

> I vividly recall coming into the data center for a fortune 50 company, one everyone here would know, and being astonished that they had never heard of Network Attached Storage or RAID <

The thing is: Big companies, even non critical are usually bonded to some frameworks/regulatory standards/etc.

So, mentioning that they didnt know NAS or even RAID (which is very old, end of 80s), makes me wondering in which decade this happened?

Indeed, the "beaver as relevant tool as major driver" does actually not exist in schools in EU mainland; the chance is higher you hear about the porks brought by first European-immigrants that they used for food production because of their fast reproduction numbers.

(and porks are easy to deal with, they eat everything; Once I heard someone from crime enforcement saying: "the perfect murdery would be to feed the dead body to a herd of porks because they would even eat the teeth from the body")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus#Biological_role

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Phosphor

Phosphor is not renewable/regrowable and recycling is very hard/expensive. In a nutshell: The worlds food completely relies on this molekule.

Either, you are not from Germany or your example is a clear MBA-101-Bobo-Textbook example :-D

Im glad that this country didnt play a larger role in colonialism! Your sentence is the first I hear in decaded advocading for "if they had colonialism as well, it would be a much better country because then they wouldnt be racist"??

By the way - Poland or Hungary also had no "luck of colonial empire" - what about them? As well as tons of other European states?