Politicians are also WE. We dont import politicians from Germany do we ? Indian IT companies are flooded with liquid cash of $30 billion due to massive cost arbitage, Did they come up with anything earth shaking in IT ? Any new OS? Any new IP protocol ? Any new hardware technology ? ANYTHING ? Definately it is WE who are stupid.
Japan built heaviest warship way bach in world war era 1940s and still holds records to this day. We are good at reinventing and copying already existing techonologies not original work.