Living in Vietnam like my family does, I think about this frequently. Asian countries suffer from some of these same industrial problems that the West suffered

Living in Vietnam like my family does, I think about this frequently. Asian countries suffer from some of these same industrial problems that the West suffered from a generation ago. It isn't clear to me if these are problems that we've collectively just offshored to more developing nations, but there does seem to be a pattern as (Tiger in the modern case) economies industrialize and reach a certain hard-working xenith.