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The difference is that India has a very large population willing to train for the relevant skills. America does not.

totalZero 6y ago
India's population is larger but I see no reason to believe Indians are more willing to learn skills than Americans. Would you mind explaining your argument, or at least backing it up with some kind of evidence? The US labor market has long exhibited massive demand for skilled labor, and that's part of the reason that two-thirds of high-school graduates immediately enroll in college. USN&WR lists the US as being perceived fifth in the world for producing skilled workers, behind Japan, Germany, South Korea, and China. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/top-10-countries-with-a-skilled-labor-force-ranked-by-perception?slide=7 https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/top-10... https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=51 https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=51
- danans 6y ago
  > The US labor market has long exhibited massive demand for skilled labor, and that's part of the reason that two-thirds of high-school graduates immediately enroll in college. American college grads are not typically seeking to work as skilled assembly workers in factories. They might seek to be engineers or project and business managers in those factories, but not the people who assemble the devices. That requires a large pool of skilled manual labor which the US doesn't produce as much anymore. By contrast, Germany produces a large number of highly skilled vocational workers who supply labor for its high-end manufacturing industry.
  - totalZero 6y ago
    > American college grads are not typically seeking to work as skilled assembly workers in factories. Certainly, and that is almost entirely reflective of labor market demand. Workers pursue skills that are pertinent to jobs for which there is labor demand. Reflow soldering and other electronics manufacturing skills are not particularly grueling to learn, but they don't make as much sense in a diversified postindustrial economy where manufacturing is not the target sector for most workers. The USA has a larger manufacturing sector than Germany, but manufacturing is a smaller proportion of the American economy (12%) than of the German economy (23%). https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-manufacturing-scorecard-how-the-us-compares-to-18-other-nations/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-manufacturing-scor...

India's population is larger but I see no reason to believe Indians are more willing to learn skills than Americans. Would you mind explaining your argument, or at least backing it up with some kind of evidence? The US labor market has long exhibited massive demand for skilled labor, and that's part of the reason that two-thirds of high-school graduates immediately enroll in college. USN&WR lists the US as being perceived fifth in the world for producing skilled workers, behind Japan, Germany, South Korea, and China. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/top-10-countries-with-a-skilled-labor-force-ranked-by-perception?slide=7 https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/top-10... https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=51 https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=51

danans 6y ago
> The US labor market has long exhibited massive demand for skilled labor, and that's part of the reason that two-thirds of high-school graduates immediately enroll in college. American college grads are not typically seeking to work as skilled assembly workers in factories. They might seek to be engineers or project and business managers in those factories, but not the people who assemble the devices. That requires a large pool of skilled manual labor which the US doesn't produce as much anymore. By contrast, Germany produces a large number of highly skilled vocational workers who supply labor for its high-end manufacturing industry.
- totalZero 6y ago
  > American college grads are not typically seeking to work as skilled assembly workers in factories. Certainly, and that is almost entirely reflective of labor market demand. Workers pursue skills that are pertinent to jobs for which there is labor demand. Reflow soldering and other electronics manufacturing skills are not particularly grueling to learn, but they don't make as much sense in a diversified postindustrial economy where manufacturing is not the target sector for most workers. The USA has a larger manufacturing sector than Germany, but manufacturing is a smaller proportion of the American economy (12%) than of the German economy (23%). https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-manufacturing-scorecard-how-the-us-compares-to-18-other-nations/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-manufacturing-scor...