Hmmm, methinks you doth protest too much
...as in, maybe try to get a balanced viewpoint here. Those countries that now host the many jobs lost in the US and other 1st world countries (was that politics-neutral enough?) didn't just "get ahead" of the West. They got *level* or near enough while keeping salaries *much lower*.
In fact the lion's share of development and design still take place in the the US and UK and the 2nd tier stuff like programming or building someone else's designs, are what is happening in India and China. For the most part. Generally speaking. Overall.