Comment by necovek

The way US dominated in some of the industries (including software, for instance) was by being first to extract large value, and then funding the best people with compensation unachievable elsewhere.

This meant that all the talent in the world gravitated towards the US, but that was gradually changing already with compensation catching up.

Still, I believe US only hastened this with their change of immigration policies that were the basis of them keeping a dominant position for decades.