I don't expect this to be true in the short to medium term, as the large shift would take place in larger companies who have already attempted this and demonstr

I don't expect this to be true in the short to medium term, as the large shift would take place in larger companies who have already attempted this and demonstrated quite clearly that they do not know how to outsource work to lower cost countries. There are certainly opportunities where workers in developing countries can do the same job for substantially less money, but very few companies do the hard work of really integrating these workers with their existing teams so it's just colonialism 2.0 where westerners who are trusted by management are told to create robotic tasks for the cheap labor in such a way that no one can meaningfully fuck it up. It creates a predictable result. On more of a 25-50 year perspective, it has always been impossible for the majority of the world to be lifted out of poverty without those people eventually competing with us. The 20th century economic advantage and resulting broad equality of prosperity in the US and western Europe was a historical fluke of right place, right time that will likely never be repeated. I expect developed countries to start looking a lot more like developing countries do now in terms of economic equality.