>The US also has a culture that considers hand-work to be distasteful and even evil, whereas mind-work as something to be aspired to. It varies. Your statemen

>The US also has a culture that considers hand-work to be distasteful and even evil, whereas mind-work as something to be aspired to. It varies. Your statement is definitely true in most of the places the demographics on HN mostly live. But nobody is trying to build manufacturing facilities in those places.