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Originally Posted by Dynamic
Haha Americans building iPhones?! Good grief that would be a disaster. Remember that documentary where some Chinese tycoon thought it would be a good idea to have a glass factory in an abandoned car factory. Most of the documentary was making fun of the workers who lacked the skill and motivation to make glass. Building iPhones would be an epic disaster. They don’t have the labour force to support it and nobody is going to slave away for 15 bucks an hour working anywhere near the pace and quality where iPhones are built today.
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Yup. Tim Cook was interviewed 5 or 6 years ago and tried to dispel the racist idea from the majority of the west who say that you go to China for cheap, low cost, low skill labour by saying that you don't go to China for low cost, you go to China for high skill in production. The skillset needed to use the technology needed to produce many of today's goods simply isn't there in the west.
And since then, China has moved to almost full automation and robots now in many industries. The whole bringing this stuff back to America is hilarious.