I've gathered some charts so that we may get some kind of clue on what goes on in our world of industries.
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While it might be productive today (2017), I envision having people in manual labor is going to be an increasingly large disadvantage in the future.
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Here we see impressive things happen in Poland, Portugal and Korea.
We should keep in mind that in 2015, China produced or assembled: 28% of the world’s automobiles, 41% of the world’s ships, 80%+ of the world’s computers, 90%+ of the world’s mobile phones, 60% of the world’s TV sets, 50%+ of the world’s refrigerators, 80% of the world’s air-conditioners, 24% of the world’s power and Half of the world’s steel.
But the Chinese wouldn't be the Chinese if they didn't have some kind of plan. Objectively it seems a brilliant idea:
"The initiative maps out strategies for not only fostering “indigenous innovation” but also for forcing foreign companies to divulge details of critical technologies in exchange for access to Chinese markets."
It reminds me of Robert Steele's idea to Open Source Everything:
"For 30 years a handful of innovators have been silenced by a corrupt federal government intent on spending taxpayer funds without regard to citizen needs or accountability for waste on the order of 50% across every domain from agriculture to energy to health to security and water.
An Open Source (Technologies) Agency is proposed. This agency, twice discussed during the past fifteen years within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) (in an earlier information-focused incarnation), is now proposed as a comprehensive innovation engine that addresses nine distinct open source technology groups itemized below:"
Open Data
Open Decision-Support
Open Governance
Open Health
Open Infrastructures
Open Manufacturing
Open Provisioning
Open Software
Open Space
(further down the document)
"The Idea: An Open Source (Technologies) Agency funded by defense, under diplomatic auspices, and focused on a mix of Whole of Government and multinational information-sharing and sense-making with a digital Marshall Plan emphasizing Open Source Provisioning (energy, water, shelter, food) as well as Open Infrastructures (free cellular and Internet), will quickly and radically enable leap-frog innovation that stabilizes and reconstructs at a local to global scale."
It seems to make a frighteningly large amount of sense. Most if not all of the corporate secrets are build on or borrow heavily from publicly funded research. We never intended public funding to be used to create counterproductive monopolies.
Read on, buy the book etc - Enjoy!