My comment: Of the four jobs highlighted, only translator's "average salary" is $43,300 (a year), the other three are meager: bike mechanic $23,660, home-health aide $19,640, amd carpenter $25,760.
My comment: I was surprised by the statistics (in a billow of black smoke) in the upper right corner:
"2008 CO2 emission, metric tons per capita
China:5.2 tons
US 17.3 tons"
Americans are productive (and wasting energy at the same time), because they use a lot of machinery: using a leaf blower instead of a bloom, for example. I do not know where Chinese produce all the carbon dioxide.
Note:
(a) Tiffany & Co http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_%26_Co.
(headquarters in Manhattan; Founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City in 1837 as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium")
(b) Harley-Davidson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson
(Haedquarters Milwaukee, Wisconsin; founded in 1903 by William S Harley, his childhood friend Arthur Davidson and Arthur's brother, Walter Davidson)
(c) History of Pizza Hut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Pizza_Hut
(founded in 1958 by brothers Dan and Frank Carney in their hometown of Wichita, Kansas; PepsiCo buys out company in 1977, with headquarters in Plano, Texas)
(d) Tellingly, in this article only Apple is an industrial company, which off-shores manufacturing.