13 September 2005 - outsourcing 2

The rich countries (“developed” means the same in nations as in ideas, overcooked) fear that their comparative advantage lies solely in jobs, which they are exporting rapidly. Of course, the biggest movements are of jobs that people hate, and the people who get them need them more. Thus the world gradually grows wealthier, and in due time everybody will hate these jobs. I think we’d better hurry up and invent robots, so that complaints of lost jobs can be equitably distributed.