Math and physics are exportable (Score 1)

I find the quote "Low-skill jobs like coding are moving offshore..." is being used to support the often fragile egos of the management classes. (By the way, I work as a software project/group manager.) Those of us that happen to have jobs which are currently inefficient to export, we have a short-sighted interest in believing that exportable implies lower status.

Smart people are distributed throughout the world. If theoretical math and physics were business necessities in the US, they'd have been exported long ago, but noone claims they are low-skill jobs. Extraordinary thinking ability exists throughout the world.

Purely information based jobs will move offshore whenever well informed and well educated people exist in low pay countries. This is inevitable. It says nothing about the skill-level required for those jobs. If and when it becomes efficient to export project-management, it'll happen. Ironically, software engineers (coders) will be the ones making the enabling technologies.