Eventually people will wake up and discover that we have offshored all our manufacturing and much of our value-added functions (like design and engineering). All that will be left is a huge client class and people who govern & clean up after them. Oh, yeah, and we'll be deeply in debt, too. All in the name of, what? What a sorry bunch us baby boomers have turned out to be.
"Eventually people will wake up and discover that we have offshored all our manufacturing and much of our value-added functions (like design and engineering)."
Not everyone is sleeping:
"Other observers note that recent political shifts in the U.S. may strengthen the hand of organized labor, which provided much of the financial backing for Democrats to recapture control of Congress. In return for campaign contributions, labor groups will press lawmakers to put the breaks on offshoring as a way to preserve U.S. manufacturing jobs, observers said. What impact that might have on the future of U.S. innovation remains unclear. "