[hunter112]

The IC pie is going to get much, much bigger. That is the point many people are missing.

Exactly. You can make a living being a chef without having to personally pick the lettuce.

They can move the manufacturing, design, and software writing overseas, but they cannot move the customer there. Look at tennis shoes, the money is made in the Athlete's Foot store where they fit the customer to the shoe, not in the factory where the workers get a few cents off each hundred dollar pair of sneakers.

[oceanview]

and the tens of thousands of engineers in the US making middle class salaries whose jobs are gone, I guess they should all retrain to be chefs.