Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by blackrock 2193 days ago
This is true. The key is to retarget these factory employees to do something else before that happens.

The other side of the coin is what will happen to Apple and the American economic system?

They will have to pick up and relocate to other third world countries, for their cheap labor. Vietnam, India, Mexico? Sure. But a lot of other mid level goods come from China.

If the supply chain is stopped, then everyone is impacted. The whole thing stops.

Apple’s stock price will crater. Supposedly. But the Fed is so busy juicing the market, and Apple can just repurchase their shares, that they can financially engineer themselves out of this stock meltdown scenario.