> it was not "They are soooo much better at all the things over there!"

Though I think we should also disabuse ourselves of the idea that this can't ever be the case.

An obvious example that comes to mind is the US' inability to do anything cheaply anymore, like build city infrastructure.

Also, once you enumerate the reasons why something is happening somewhere but not in the US, you may have just explained how they are better de facto than the US. Even if it just cashes out into bureaucracy, nimbyism, politics, lack of will, and anything else that you wouldn't consider worker skillset. Those are just nation-level skillsets and products.

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bcrosby95 3 days ago | parent [-]

Hence "had the skills" and "was not". They are not making claims about the present day, they are talking about why the shift happened in the first place and who brought it about.

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hombre_fatal 2 days ago | parent [-]

Good point. When I commented, the sentence I quoted was the final sentence of their comment essentially leaving it more abstract. Though my comment barely interacts with their point anyways.

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themaninthedark 2 days ago | parent [-]

Sorry. I was typing, got distracted and submitted before I meant to. I thought I had edited pretty quickly, normally I put an edit tag if I think too much time had elapsed.

	▲	hombre_fatal 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I was just blaming it on that. In reality my comment was making a trivial claim rather than a good observation.