Sramana Mitra: Right now, you are equating low cost with untrained labor. It doesn’t have to be so because there is such pressure on jobs. Over the next 30 years, the level of pressure on jobs is going to be tremendous. The level of unemployment is going to go through the roof because of automation.
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Sramana Mitra: There’s stuff like that going on. There are venture-funded solutions that are going after that market also. From my point of view, the big trend that I see is that America never used to be a place where there was a lot of cheap labor available. I grew up in India. In India,
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