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>> Cook told "60 Minutes” in 2015. “I mean, you can take every tool and die maker in the United States and probably put them in a room that we’re currently sitt
by flubert 9y ago
>> Cook told "60 Minutes” in 2015. “I mean, you can take every tool and die maker in the United States and probably put them in a room that we’re currently sitting in. In China, you would have to have multiple football fields.”
The BLS seems to think there are 72,000 tool and die makers in the U.S..
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes514111.htm#(1) https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes514111.htm#(1)
>I have shared this quote with every middle/lower-middle class person I know who voted for Trump and their responses have all been the same, horror.
...which quote, the tool-and-die-maker quote, or the jobs-aren't-coming-back quote?
- abritinthebay 9y agoI think Cook was more talking about representatives from each company - not everyone employed by them. There are an order of magnitude more people employed as tool and die makers in China anyhow so, even if you do use that as a metric, the broader point still stands.
- flubert 9y ago>There are an order of magnitude more people employed as tool and die makers in China Do you have a recommendation for a source for employment statistics like that for China? In English? A quick search hasn't turned up much, but there must be something out there like that.
- abritinthebay 9y agoNumbers are sparce it's true. I based the order of magnitude comment on a line saying there were "over 100k companies" doing similar work in China on a Business Insider article. It's probably reasonable to assume a decent company size so... seemed ballpark accurate