This is directed at Thomas Friedman, not you... He is the most uncritical cheerleader blowhard I've just about ever read. He spent the early 2000s raving about how outsourcing America's wealth-creation capacity was a great thing, and now he's taking the lead in lamenting it.
I don't know who feeds him his ideas, but he lacks experience, judgment, and wisdom to fully evaluate them himself, and is at best an unskilled popularizer of spurious memes. The few times he says something not totally sophomoric, it's almost certainly due to random chance alone. Broken clock is right twice a day.
If you're going to listen to any one person on this issue, Andy Grove is the one:
I don't know who feeds him his ideas, but he lacks experience, judgment, and wisdom to fully evaluate them himself, and is at best an unskilled popularizer of spurious memes. The few times he says something not totally sophomoric, it's almost certainly due to random chance alone. Broken clock is right twice a day.
If you're going to listen to any one person on this issue, Andy Grove is the one:
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm1106/manufacturing...
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b41860483...
I wish I could vote for Grove for President. I just might write him in.
/rant