I have learned never to ask women the secrets of what they are doing with cosmetics - it seems like you never want to know (and/or they never want you to know).
(Apparently there are facial care products - "instant face-lift serums" that require several minutes of immobility and airflow to tighten, creating a temporary, taut effect; you can sort of cheat this with a blow-dryer. You can find a guide on how to do this on youtube or tiktok; I'm not really qualified to say which one is actually "good"; the one that came up for me on the search result was Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX which if I didn't know better sounds like, uh, a male enhancement product.)
So we have good examples of countries dominated by the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. There are none I can think of where the quaternary economy is most important, unless you count potential charter cities. And as for the quinary sector, I imagine only the Holy See comes close.
If you want to count just stock market capitalization, you might point to Japan, South Korea, the US, and Taiwan (assuming you count that as its own nation instead of just a disputed province, of course). The tech (and pharma) industry sort of is the tail that wags the dog on the S&P 500 - c.f. my article on the stock market - but you're correct: it isn't actually the support structure of the economy, it's just the high profile / high growth section of the economy.
Theoretically one might say Washington DC or Brussels have gotten to be quinary cities - cynically you might say that's indistinguishable from "lobbying or corruption cities" - but it seems impractical to have a quinary nation unless it's literally in a governance position over the others. If you'd embodied the UN as its own nation-state (and given it the authority people seemed to think it was going to have back in the 1970s) then I suppose hypothetically, but in practice? I'm reminded of Stalin's famous question: how many divisions does the Pope have? There are enough people who will tell you that the quinary sector is a rounding error or doesn't deserve to be its own sector / is only there because the constituent individuals there are disproportionately influential, and there's some truth to that. (You might have at one point said "Hollywood is quinary - it shapes the world with soft power" but I think that's faded.)
Why is that woman drying her face?
I have learned never to ask women the secrets of what they are doing with cosmetics - it seems like you never want to know (and/or they never want you to know).
(Apparently there are facial care products - "instant face-lift serums" that require several minutes of immobility and airflow to tighten, creating a temporary, taut effect; you can sort of cheat this with a blow-dryer. You can find a guide on how to do this on youtube or tiktok; I'm not really qualified to say which one is actually "good"; the one that came up for me on the search result was Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX which if I didn't know better sounds like, uh, a male enhancement product.)
So we have good examples of countries dominated by the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. There are none I can think of where the quaternary economy is most important, unless you count potential charter cities. And as for the quinary sector, I imagine only the Holy See comes close.
If you want to count just stock market capitalization, you might point to Japan, South Korea, the US, and Taiwan (assuming you count that as its own nation instead of just a disputed province, of course). The tech (and pharma) industry sort of is the tail that wags the dog on the S&P 500 - c.f. my article on the stock market - but you're correct: it isn't actually the support structure of the economy, it's just the high profile / high growth section of the economy.
Theoretically one might say Washington DC or Brussels have gotten to be quinary cities - cynically you might say that's indistinguishable from "lobbying or corruption cities" - but it seems impractical to have a quinary nation unless it's literally in a governance position over the others. If you'd embodied the UN as its own nation-state (and given it the authority people seemed to think it was going to have back in the 1970s) then I suppose hypothetically, but in practice? I'm reminded of Stalin's famous question: how many divisions does the Pope have? There are enough people who will tell you that the quinary sector is a rounding error or doesn't deserve to be its own sector / is only there because the constituent individuals there are disproportionately influential, and there's some truth to that. (You might have at one point said "Hollywood is quinary - it shapes the world with soft power" but I think that's faded.)