I think you missed the 'right time in history' part of my point. If Australia found the biggest coal seam in its history today, it would be more economically wise to put solar panels on it.

So all the countries with plenty of sun are going to get lots of cheap energy independence soon. I guess we should cargo cult from whatever they did to achieve this amazing success? I know the liberals want to claim it's geography and 'hours of sunshine' or some other politically correct nonsense but really I think it's all about the wide brimmed hats they wear and avoidance of the corrupting influence of ice hockey. But they won't teach that in schools!

And close to home examples like Google should make this more obvious to HN readers. You can't separate them from the early dot com era and what their competitors at the time we're doing, notably monopolist Microsoft trying to kill the internet rather than embrace it, yet accidentally inventing AJAX.

There's the whole conversation about the 'Good to Great' book and how the business lessons from these success stories were obviously bullshit with just a tiny amount of hindsight.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great