Are there any careers immune to outsourcing to China, short of flipping burgers?
Health care providers who provide direct, person-to-person service. But it’s very hard to see almost any field in which the Chinese won’t have some corner that challenges American companies to do better. Even in entertainment. The rest of the world isn’t so committed to American films. And the Chinese know how to make really good movies. Despite outsourcing being a hot political topic during election years, do you think there’s any way to reverse the trend? The bigger question is how we conceptualize the Chinese. Even though I raise all these danger flags, I think it’s a big mistake to demonize the Chinese. It’s better to have a grudging admiration because they’re using their power any way they can. That’s what we do. We just have to figure out our approach to it. Do you have any sense the Bush administration is tackling the issue? We have a big government problem. The Bush administration has more CEOs of big corporations than any administration, and in the business community there’s a
