[chrisco255]

An American president using the bully pulpit (as Teddy Roosevelt so fondly called it) to expand jobs and investment in America is the president doing his actual job.

Of course Apple didn't do it on their own accord, there was way too much profit to be made from outsourcing to China. Everyone else was doing it, why not also the richest company on earth?

[FranzFerdiNaN]

I’m sure Americans are just dying for jobs like screwing iPhones together all day, or standing in a field under the burning sun harvesting tomatoes.

[chrisco255]

You mean manufacturing and farming jobs? Absolutely, they're decent jobs and far more rewarding than serving diabetes to McDonald's and Starbucks patrons.

Tomato harvesting is done in an air conditioned tractor these days:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/pDxZhOw9IH4

https://youtu.be/l4Dc6QNWiIs?si=S9qrFNpUBM5KuSrx

Production on iPhone can be highly automated these days as well. There are plenty of good examples of revitalized computer hardware manufacturing in the U.S. like the Starlink Factory in Bastrop, TX:

https://youtu.be/qz0k4wj_KlA?si=qUqJ0DWTRpHa4cgY

or the TSMC factory in Arizona, which has similar amenities to many software offices:

https://youtu.be/X3QuVwR30Uk?si=D92n34OZUpzAHIFn

[ilove196884]

Those jobs require a ton of college education. Atleast as far as I know TSMC only allows PhDs on lithography and etching machines. And Apple smartphone manufacturing is nearly automated and most of the required personnel are engineers.

[ImJamal]

Instead we should just give it to brown people and pay them minimum wage or less than in other countries.

[const_cast]

If we give it to Americans, then we just also rely on brown people making minimum wage or less - undocumented Americans.

The reality is our entire economy is more or less fake - it's propped up like a dead body by hyper-consumerism. We rely on buying way more shit than we should, and that, in turn, requires warm bodies who can't live off their wages. This is in high contrast to the economy of the early to mid 20th century.

We can rip that bandaid off, but things would suck for a while, maybe a long time. That's a hard sell - especially since we (not underpaid) get nothing.