It seems, that every culture has three steps or phases you are partly or successive in:

3 cultures:

• Creative – Inventing Things and ideas, taking risks, high failure rate
• Ready made – Using things and ideas, no own ideas, low risk, money consuming
• Recycling – Re-using things and ideas until they are worn out, no risk at all

Because it is a circle – the end of recycling is the beginning of creativity.