The Evolution Of Skills

by Patrick Appel

Ryan Avent has an important follow-up on manufacturing and outsourcing that should be read in full:

This sounds horribly dehumanizing and generally terrible, but it's how
the world got rich — by moving workers from wretched jobs to merely
crappy jobs, then kicking them out of the crappy jobs and forcing them
to find merely cruddy jobs, then kicking them out of the cruddy jobs
and forcing them to find merely unpleasant jobs.

Outsourcing - Manufacturing - Business -...