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by wil421 681 days ago
Sounds like the tech version of Walmart killing the small town. Except they kill American “tech manufacturing” or whatever you want to call it.

It’s 100% about borderline slave labor pay. I used to think it was because chip manufacturing is very nasty but I think it’s both pay and subpar working conditions.
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bonestamp2 681 days ago
> Except they kill American “tech manufacturing” or whatever you want to call it.

This is the part I don't understand... they have placed orders with the new fabs that aren't even built yet. How are they killing American manufacturing if there is no American manufacturing for them to buy from?

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microtherion 681 days ago
And it's not just isolated factories. There is a whole ecosystem of interrelated manufacturing & assembly companies that you would have to transplant to the US.

And I keep hearing that there are hundreds of thousands of people working on iPhone assembly. I can't even imagine how long it would take to replicate such a workforce in the US. Wages aside, this seems to be rather exacting, meticulous work with limited paths of advancement. Where are these laborers going to come from?

As Steve Jobs is reported to have told Barack Obama in 2010: "These jobs are not coming back".

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wil421 681 days ago
It’s political theater. The tide is swaying towards US fabs. What about the past 15+ years? The capability is gone for a lot of it.

As Obama put it, “Those jobs aren’t coming back”.

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