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The tone of the article suggests that an iPhone is made of these elements, moreso than it does that they are made with these elements. has about 75 elements
by wonkaWonka 10y ago
The tone of the article suggests that an iPhone is made of these elements, moreso than it does that they are made with these elements.
has about 75 elements in it
It's like saying the natural gas and the oven belong on the printed wrapper in the list of ingredients for that cookie you just ate.
- yompers888 10y agoGiven the context, though, parent's comment is reasonable. The isolationist drive that would bring iphone manufacturing and all the associated mining back to the US would go hand-in-hand with a very isolationist economy, in which we'd presumably not be able to get anything from other countries. The thought exercise of in-sourcing everything that ever contributed to anything that eventually goes into a phone helps to point out how the idea of disentangling ourselves from the global market is absurd.