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What’s with HN’s weird obsession with the United States? Every other day there's some article about a business in the US and how it's taking over AI, or startup
by icelancer 9y ago
What’s with HN’s weird obsession with the United States? Every other day there's some article about a business in the US and how it's taking over AI, or startups, or the world.
- HumanDrivenDev 9y agoI'm not American, but it's very easy to see that US is the centre of the tech world. You may not like but that's indisputable.
- icelancer 9y agoAnd where are all of our tech things made? China is very much the center as well. Just in different verticals. You may not like that, but that's indisputable.
- joelb2014 9y agoIt is today but things like lower-skilled manufacturing have a way of moving quickly to the lowest cost locale. Anecdotally from relationships with a few hardware companies (US & EU) there has been an increasing shift out of China for as wages have gone up on the mainland Article on wage increase in China (2017): https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/chinese-wages-rise-made-in-china-isnt-so-cheap-anymore.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/chinese-wages-rise-made-in-c... edit: defined type of manufacturing (lower-skilled)
- HumanDrivenDev 9y ago> And where are all of our tech things made? Oh, overwhelming China. It perhaps would have been less confusing had I said "the software world".