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The implication here is that the kind of manufacturing work that helped lift China out of poverty may never migrate to the rest of the world's developing nation
by cageface 14y ago
The implication here is that the kind of manufacturing work that helped lift China out of poverty may never migrate to the rest of the world's developing nations.
It may turn out that the time window in which a developing country could ride the outsourcing train to prosperity was actually only a few decades wide.
- thenomad 14y agoManufacturing isn't the only outsourcable work, though. Customer service, programming, and other things less easily replicated by 3D printing and robots will still be outsourced for a while yet.
- icebraining 14y agoBoth of those are much more skilled jobs, though.