The reason "dutch disease" is a problem for resource producing countries is that manufacturing productivity growth is much stronger compared to commodity production. It's better to be a manufacturing powerhouse than it is to be a commodity powerhouse.

It's entirely plausible that services are the same way, it's better to make things for other people than to do things for other people.

So, yeah, anything but an industrial, or post-industrial computer driven line, is setting your country up for long term failure. There is lots of societal enrichment that comes not just from the direct production of these things and their sale but also from how they facilitate the ad-hoc understanding of reality.

Take TV for example. Today you can watch Squid Games on your 65" 4k TV. 30 years ago you got to watch whatever was on cable on your 27" CRT. But where does that improvement get captured? We don't manufacture more TVs. In fact, we make fewer. We don't spend more money on Netflix than Cable. We actually spend less.

There's a lot of things like that where the quality has improved but that's hard to put an actual GDP number on.

Asia is making incremental improvements on products invented in the West. They're not the ones inventing classes of devices or breaking new ground.

They didn't invent it, but they make probably 90% of the hardware components

We've stopped reinvesting our profits, essentially.