Jobs aren’t being lost overseas because they are smarter. They are dumber but work cheaper. So cheap they can hire two people to do the job of one American worker and still save money. Plus no benefits package.
“Jobs aren’t being lost overseas because they are smarter. They are dumber but work cheaper.”
Certainly in the short run the cheap labor argument wins the day. However, in the long run, before those jobs went overseas, they were, by and large, created here first. And they were created here generally by someone who was trained and gifted in math, science, medicine, and/or business.
I can’t think of any meaningful job that was created primarily on the basis that they could spell well.
Almost all of the finalists are Middle Eastern Indian.