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Somebody got a call from Tim Apple. So much for the clamor to make iPhones in the US. More American jobs vaporized, just like that.
I don't think the general populace was particularly interested in buying 5000 dollar US made smartphones lmao
Nope. Just ludicrous propositions to terrorize everyone on the planet.
Building iPhones in the US was never going to happen, it would double or triple the price if we did it here.
It's not about the price. There just isn't enough capacity and workers to build that many.
Which is why the price would dramatically go up. Labor is cheap in China because it's plentiful, labor is expensive here because it's not. Making iPhones here means diverting labor from other good jobs.
No I mean it wouldn't be possible to make them here, if you tried to build a series of factories they would not have enough workers. It's like an order of magnitude scale difference, the largest industrial plant in the US is 30k workers and in China the big one for iPhones is 350k. And that is 350k people working super long hours. Even in China labor isn't plentiful anymore, there is shortages of labor in the coastal areas. You try to hire a staffing firm and tell them you want 300k skilled workers in a city and they'll just laugh at you.
If you increase wages high enough, you'll get the workers. However, that'll have negative effects for whatever those workers were doing before.
Makes this article look even stupider than when it was first written
Why? People probably panic upgraded.
The Trump tariffs are doing as intended, manipulating the market.
Pretty sick of these kinds of doomsdayers rolling over and spreading panic instead of focusing on calling out all the bullshit. Not that that's even an effective approach. What needs to be repeated over and over is the obvious failures in simple enough terms they can become mantras, slogans, ways of beating the propagandists at their own game. We're more creative and smarter than them yet we let ourselves lose the propaganda war. Well, not us per se, but legacy media and feckless Democrats.
Lol. Conservatives don't care. Libs fucking OWNED. We got fucking OWNED, y'all.
Do you feel it? Does it fucking hurt to be owned by poor people who will now be poorer with less options?
They fucking showed us. And themselves. Fuck yeah!!!
Ignorance is strength!!!