Why do many Chinese people struggle to adapt when they go to Europe or America? It seems that business owners or so-called elites who were very successful in China often find themselves unable to achieve anything there, only able to continue spending money or retire. In fact, it's not due to language barriers, nor because the social circles are too small, nor is it a cultural unfamiliarity. Instead, the logic they relied on for survival is no longer the core productivity in a different civilization system. Chinese-style social relationships, in China, are considered "productivity," depending on "the ability to coordinate between people." But when they enter normal countries that are more institutionalized, more standardized, and have lower relationship density, their original advantages quickly become ineffective. In normal countries, more emphasis is placed on verifiable professional skills, contractual systems, institutional credit, and globally transferable occupational skills. Here, relationships between people do not need to be based on "being part of the same group" for things to progress. So, what is truly difficult to transfer is never just money, but the capability system.

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