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> They have all the talent because China is poor, still. That’s why China has (somewhat) inexpensive labor. It does not explain why China has far more plastic
by amluto 2y ago
> They have all the talent because China is poor, still.
That’s why China has (somewhat) inexpensive labor. It does not explain why China has far more plastic engineering talent, electrical engineering talent, etc than the US.
- intrasight 2y agoThey have more engineers because they need more engineers
- ajross 2y agoThey have more talent because that's where talent is needed. You don't staff factories with "talent", you staff them with labor. Then you need "talent" to design the process. It all feeds back. We used to have injection molding plastic experts in the US in the 70's! The technology was invented here. But they all retired and no one stepped in to replace them because those factories all closed down. Chinese kids picked up the slack. The US wasn't sleeping though. We trained a generation of software engineering talent that remains the envy of the world. There are whole web sites devoted to this "Hacker" subculture, even. Maybe we can find one. Seriously: there's no problem here. This is the way economies work.
- blitzar 2y ago5x the population and an education system that hasn't spent the last 50 years teaching science from the bible.