Developing countries are (increasingly) competing on creativity as well as cost

Thomas Friedman pushes globalization, with the same passion as a drug dealer, touting that, "Let them do the blue collar work, and America will do what it does best: creative, innovative, white collar work."

That's only a temporary competitive advantage, though. (To say it's sustainable is racist, really.) And now, lo!, here are the signs it's ending. Surprise, surprise.

Innovation in the emerging world will encourage, rather than undermine, innovation in the rich world.

With this, they are trying to say, "But don't worry; this doesn't affect you." Ha! No, no, no. Developing countries are coming to eat your lunch, and I couldn't be happier about it. Bon apetit!

A lot of the time you are limited by the environment you are surrounded with. It makes sense to me that developing countries would start to compete on a creative edge, because they likely have a completely different perspective about the world than we (non-developing) countries do.