I’ve been saying that since the big talk of the service industry started in the 80’s. Lots of eye rolling then, now I’m a genius though few remember the disdain they heaped on me back then.
There are some entertaining threads if the archives go back that far. They called us every name in the book and wanted to know why we hated america. But now it’s okay to talk about what’s wrong. I would say that will change if someone from team red wins the championship in 2016 and we’ll go back to being america haters, but it’s not looking like team red is going to do much better by that time.
One of the aholes who led that charge was Newt Gingrich writing in "To Renew America" about the 3rd wave information age replacing the production age. Our recent past has many Newt adherents and continue to export our factories.