Think outside the box
Thailand is becoming this and that hub, economy 4.0, digital society, blah blah blah. All kinds of measures have been set. But one central one is missing -- teaching and allowing the people to think.
Wherever you go -- hospitals, banks, companies -- as soon as something occurs that is slightly out of the ordinary, staff cannot handle it. It is not that they are not intelligent but they know they are not allowed to think out the box and are punished should they make a mistake (in the eyes of their superiors). And partially they really do not know how to apply logic. This is the real middle-income trap.
And now we have a government which gives out the clear message -- "do not think, we do it for you" -- and one gets the feeling they are not the best at thinking either.