Romania has some pretty smart people and their best do well in western environments. However, I am reminded that when Sacha Baron Cohen needed to pick a countr

Romania has some pretty smart people and their best do well in western environments. However, I am reminded that when Sacha Baron Cohen needed to pick a country to film his movie Borat's scenes of a mock-Kazakhistan, something even more impoverished and backwards looking than the real Kazakhstan, he picked Romania. Why is there not already a large number of Romanian startups producing high quality engineering? Well, as part of the EU since 2007, the most talented Romanians now move to Germany and the UK for software work. The same principles are at work in the American Union as that of the European Union. There are many intelligent English speaking people in Alabama who have been to excellent schools established during the space program, and many parts of areas have very low wages. However, we do not see much outsourcing to Alabama because the talented tech people (aside from Marshall Space Center) are not actually telecommuting in tech work from those remote areas, accepting those low wages. They instead move to California and New York when they graduate college. This happens because in both the EU and US there is freedom of movement between member states. Both states are part of a union with freedom of movement between states. Both unions have poor areas. In neither case can you rely on finding high skill talent and expect to pay low wages as the article suggests, because the talent moves from the poor regions to the areas that pay market wages.