Quote: What is to prevent all jobs eventually from being done more cheaply overseas?
A college friend is an architect. He was also a free trader. No longer. Architecture jobs are starting to be sent to india in droves. He said americans are still drawing the outside of the buildings because we know what fits "culturly" in a given local. However the plans are sent to india where they design the inside structure/heating/ HVAC etc. Very easy to download state codes.
And as the Indians become more Westernized, they will draw the outsides, too.
We must all be afraid--because all our jobs can eventually be done more cheaply overseas.
I ask again: Can we really become a nation of gas station attendants and waitresses, buying from eachother and the world?