It's an American problem where some aspects are more obvious in SV. The attitudes that the US has towards employment is much more "kill or be killed" than most other developed countries, with very little recognition that it's a human being with non-economically quantifiable needs and value who's doing the work. Part of that is that wisdom (as opposed to CV bullet points) is hard to quantify.

America also gets a lot done due to that mentality, for better or worse.

Germany gets a lot done too, with the exact opposite mentality

Sure, they do alright I suppose. They're also not the most economically successful and powerful nation on Earth.