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The shrinking sectors include the labour-intensive upstream stages of the production process, where jobs have been outsourced to other countries – a phenomenon that is neither apparent to customers nor reflected in statistics on foreign direct investment.

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They receive inputs from thousands of upstream partners and compute their own electrical outputs, which then, if they pass a certain threshold, will go to thousands of downstream partners.

Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant, crawl into its brain, and drive it up a blade of grass like an all-terrain vehicle.

And of course, as you go back upstream, the components get smaller and therefore cheaper.

I found out that advances in science rarely come upstream from an ability to stand at a blackboard and conjure images from unfolding mathematical propositions and equations.

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