Molson Hart

Asia has eaten American manufacturing. I suspect that foreign countries are going to eat our software industry too.

I really doubt it, unless they get a whole lot better, quickly, or we stop high-grading off their best.

They’ll get better. It’s easier to copy than to innovate and that’s all many will need to do.

Maybe. I don't see the best, but what I see often makes me wonder if they can chew gum and type at the same time...

In 10 years I’ve seen China go from being an absolute trash can at product and design to cutting me out of my own market with sometimes superior quality. They’ll do it.

Not my field, but my suspect is that people were moving to the US as it was the shelling point for some fields. I keep seeing more and more regional shelling points.

Also - and this might seem silly, but I do think is relevant to the discussion at hand - the quality of Italian-style cappuccinos and french-style patisseries increased vertiginously in Asia over the past few years, AFAIK

With the internet, the benefit of immigrating to the United States relative to not has never been weaker. When I was in 8th grade, when teachers were able to say such things, my history teacher declares that a Japan was good at a-cubed: adopt, adapt, adept. In other words, Japan