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Yes the job market exists.
This might be less true if there is resource starvation but we have transport and imports and exports. You can accomodate more people and feed them.
Looking holistically the person leaving the US (or lets say 100 people to make it easier to see the point) means 1 to 30 less startups and so maybe an entire company or more not being started. That is less revenue for US.
What most people from the "they steal our jobs" mentality (not saying that is you, but this a seperate point) don't get is productive people create jobs by being a customer of many businesses.
That said this one did write something. But I'd say for anyone else writr 10000+ words on whatever before a single word on your setup.
Mainland China is one concern.
Another is AI being the commodity compliment to semiconductors.
Probably big model providers should do calibratuons for that and add an estimation skill.
The raw infra being local didn't enable any of that. Now if was building ASICs at TMSC that would a different thing because you'd then be using something different locally.