alt Hacker Newsits a mistake to think that the US will have any kind of monopoly on 'high qualification' jobs when the social convection engine that labor powered is dead. We are becoming a nation of finance bros, vibe coders, and a growing and permeant underclass of just about everyone else. The rest of the world has caught up after the postwar era and if we want to compete, we need to cut out the cancer that is systemic massive wealth disparity.
A healthy society finds roles for all it's citizens, not just the ones with the right credentials.
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There's no monopoly at all in the US. But the US society has tools at its disposal that make high qualification jobs possible (high end tooling, high end education with a high output of graduates per year, etc).
A highe % of the population can work in high qualification jobs, but the society will also always need cleks, bakers, taxi drivers, etc.
The effects that high qualification jobs have, with the higher value added to products and services, permeates all of society with higher wages than in other countries.
I see this a lot, people somehow under the belief that high-skill/high-paying jobs will remain here and the low-skill/low-paying jobs stay over there. And then are somehow shocked and surprised when other people also want those high $ jobs. It's just such a tenuous grip on reality.