[michaelt]

> Is the same thing to happen with software?

I have a theory that one of the major challenges facing manufacturing in the US is actually the opposite.

A manufacturing company in the US is competing for smart, numerate STEM graduates with the likes of Google who offer graduates $180,000 with zero experience (or so I'm told)

But they're also competing with manufacturers in the far east, where $40,000 is a great salary, for someone with several years of experience.

Difficult to win both competitions.

[poncho_romero]

I think that’s right, and I think there’s a third aspect at play, which is that culturally the US doesn’t value jobs in manufacturing, machining, engineering, etc. as highly as it once did (after WW2, say) or as highly as it values finance and tech jobs today. I’m not sure how easily that could change.