By exporting jobs, the U.S. has outsourced the less scalable and more linear components of production, assigning them to the citizens of more mathematical and culturally rigid states, who are happy to be paid by the hour to work on other people's ideas.

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Others, sensing the limitation of being paid by the hour, are trying to develop new ways to capture the value their work can create.

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