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It's interesting that the two options Steve Jobs mentioned were: 1. Put the factory and the jobs in China 2. Put the factory and the jobs in the US, using wor
by HillaryBriss 11y ago
It's interesting that the two options Steve Jobs mentioned were:
1. Put the factory and the jobs in China
2. Put the factory and the jobs in the US, using workers who are imported (from China/India/et al)
Why doesn't Jobs mention an option to, oh, I don't know, _make a commitment to the millions of people who are already in the US_ looking for work?
And, who better than Apple itself to train up some _existing_ members of the US labor pool in how to do what Apple does?
To the extent that "American" corporations are shells that import manufactured goods from foreign factories and import engineers from foreign societies, I have to wonder whether I give a crap if the US is a "technological leader."
Maybe if some Chinese investors bought Apple and moved the whole mess to Shenzhen, the world would finally get reasonable prices on (and customization of) Apple hardware.
- jjtheblunt 11y agoThe vast majority of the factory jobs are automatable, and will vanish in time, and have likely been continually vanishing. That reality would sit poorly with Americans who didn't see it coming, and certainly with those trying to use offshore manufacturing for political support, but that's been the plan all along.
- itsthecourier 11y agoTry to imagine the cost of hiring all those people in the US market right know, economically infeasible. Now try to imagine the cost of recruiting, hiring, training and __retaining__ the same talent from college recent graduates, again infeasible against the Chinese economics. Finally, the Apple devices manufacturing costs are low, the margin is high because there is an ecosystem restraining access to the iOS development and such OS is very good. Here or in Shenzhen, they would charge the same.