“What is the difference between someone losing their job in the US to someone in another country versus someone losing their job in the US to technology?”

Here is a related point concerning jobs in the US:

What is the difference between someone losing their job in the US to someone in another country versus someone losing their job in the US to that same foreign born person who moves to the US and works here?

In my view the second situation is better than the first because when we send smart US college educated non citizens back to their home countries instead of providing a path to US citizenship we export their entire economic value out of the US. I recall a smart US educated engineer from India who worked for a US company on an H1B visa. After a couple of years here he told me he was moving back to India to start a technology company because the US did not offer him a path to citizenship. He did return to India and started a software company. Today his company is successfully creating software (and patents) in India instead of the US. If he had a path to citizenship he would have stayed here. Since software and software services are easy to export/import he’s selling to US companies. So we “saved” one US citizen job by sending him home to India a few years ago But today we are losing multiple US jobs to his India based software company which he would have preferred to build in the US if he was allowed to stay.