The chart is partly an adaptation and replication of Figure 1 in this article, [“Tertiarization Like China”](https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-economics-071122-030026). It shows the common evolution of economic development in OECD countries and China, beginning as agricultural economies, industrializing, then ultimately becoming service-based (tertiarization).
The data is from a variety of sources, all of which are linked in the [R script](https://github.com/dawaldron/tertiarization) that reads and summarizes the data. Charts are made with d3.js.
Watch the US try and do a 180 for the next 4 years
I don’t get it. Those are not timelines, they just show that a majority of people working in agriculture produce low value (and by that I mean the price of what they sell, not that they slack or produce shit), while for services most people produce high value. That’s quite expected, there’s no indication of a shift between one sector to another.
I’d love for someone to study what to do with people who aren’t intellectually suited for a service economy. Failure to answer this question causes political instability.
![Developed economies de-industrialize and become dominated by the services sector [OC]](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/r0ixhmjp2x1f1-1920x1024.png)
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[Complete blog post here](https://blog.waldrn.com/p/what-happened-to-american-manufacturing)
The chart is partly an adaptation and replication of Figure 1 in this article, [“Tertiarization Like China”](https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-economics-071122-030026). It shows the common evolution of economic development in OECD countries and China, beginning as agricultural economies, industrializing, then ultimately becoming service-based (tertiarization).
The data is from a variety of sources, all of which are linked in the [R script](https://github.com/dawaldron/tertiarization) that reads and summarizes the data. Charts are made with d3.js.
Watch the US try and do a 180 for the next 4 years
I don’t get it. Those are not timelines, they just show that a majority of people working in agriculture produce low value (and by that I mean the price of what they sell, not that they slack or produce shit), while for services most people produce high value. That’s quite expected, there’s no indication of a shift between one sector to another.
I’d love for someone to study what to do with people who aren’t intellectually suited for a service economy. Failure to answer this question causes political instability.
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