[thesmtsolver]

Any data backing this? If this were the case, why isn’t most innovation done outside the US?

Jobs that have a high 0-1 component will still be in the US but jobs that are more 1-n may be offshored.

[hshdhdhj4444]

Because most of the smartest people in the world moved to the U.S. because of the education system, great access to capital, and the fact that they and other smart people could easily move to, live and work with each other in the U.S.

The U.S. also has the largest useful single market in the world (the EU is broken up across many languages/cultures, China is isolated so you can’t really expand out).

The U.S. is actively working to destroy several of those planks right now.

Even the capital plank, which superficially looks strong, is being hurt by the government picking winners and choosers. If the current govt bets don’t turn out to be the right ones we’re looking at an ugly, probably tax payer funded (OpenAI has already hinted at this) collapse.

[BoiledCabbage]

> Jobs that have a high 0-1 component will still be in the US but jobs that are more 1-n may be offshored.

It used to be (since at least mid last century) and 0-1 and 1-n jobs were focused here. The world becoming smaller allowed a lot of 1-n jobs to move abroad. But we kept 0-1 jobs here.

That used to be the situation when the country brought people from around the world to be educated and then start business here. And historical precedent allowed us to continue thise advantages by having a reputation for it and continuing to support it. Our country for some reason now has decided it no longer wants to take the actions that fill the pipeline for 0-1 innovation.

And the world just like it took over 1-n is going to take over 0-1.

Why you would choose catalyze that change as an American, I have no idea.

I think there are people that generally believe that there is magic dust that says it can only happen on US soil instead of there being structural actions taken to enable it.

We will all very quickly learn that 0-1 can be anywhere that 1-n is.

[Ekaros]

It is less so about skills of workers. And more so about having lot of investors who are willing to throw money at everything and then even more after the fact. Or to just outright having enough money to buy out the better ideas.

[TeMPOraL]

> If this were the case, why isn’t most innovation done outside the US?

Are you measuring by where the work is done, or where the people signing their names on it live? Two different things.

[brazukadev]

> If this were the case, why isn’t most innovation done outside the US?

Capital

[deeznuttynutz]

That's not even close to remotely true. If that is the case, why is the UAE throwing their money at US startups and not their own? They have more than enough "capital".