> When you are outsourcing assembly you are actually sending quite a lot of the knowledge and know how that went into the high value act of designing a thing.

> When you are outsourcing assembly you are actually sending quite a lot of the knowledge and know how that went into the high value act of designing a thing. I don't think so. Employees on the chain line are not going to become literate and engineers just because you are outsourcing the menial stuff. > so being able to produce physical stuff both better, more, and cheaper That is knowledge work. > The only area china is really behind seems to be commercial airlines engines. That is the only thing we never really outsourced. It didn't stop Brazil from creating a rather very good aerospace company. I am afraid we cannot reconcile the difference in our thinking.