Comment Hollowing Out US Strength (Score 1) 2064
I haven't seen much talk about the obvious effects on US power. The outflow of tech jobs has two obvious effects. First, the tax base is reduced so that the country can afford less. Second, the nations the jobs move to will grow indigenous companies that increasingly create all the new innovations, leaving us in the dust.
Isn't it interesting that this is happening at the exact moment the current Administration has decided it can strut about acting like an undefeatable imperial power? I have seen some commentators who have speculated this power imbalance would only last perhaps twenty or thirty years. Garbage! With the continually increasing rate of knowledge accumulation, the fact that the center of that accumulation has moved out of the United States implies the imbalance will shift much, much sooner.
Just, of course, when we have managed to pretty well piss-off much of the rest of the world.
Isn't it interesting that this is happening at the exact moment the current Administration has decided it can strut about acting like an undefeatable imperial power? I have seen some commentators who have speculated this power imbalance would only last perhaps twenty or thirty years. Garbage! With the continually increasing rate of knowledge accumulation, the fact that the center of that accumulation has moved out of the United States implies the imbalance will shift much, much sooner.
Just, of course, when we have managed to pretty well piss-off much of the rest of the world.
