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296 sats \ 8 comments \ @stack_harder 11 Apr AskSN

tbh, all the talk of bringing manufacturing to the US is too little, too late. The UK too. That boat sailed loooong sailed

Yes, maybe you can do it technically, but should you?

i get the logic when we're talking military things like drones, but consumer stuff?

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213 sats \ 3 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 11 Apr

Yes, but using automation instead of labor.

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @stack_harder OP 11 Apr

i would agree, that defeats the stated purpose of bringing all these jobs back to the US

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 11 Apr

not necessarily, it will still be more jobs than having no factory at all.

And by having a factory in a place, that spills over to other jobs in the local economy, like restaurants, bars, and all the rest.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 11 Apr

Right

139 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 11 Apr

IMO all this talk about should is statism. Central planning. Apple should make phones where they want to. If people don't like it they can voice their displeasure in the market. That said, I think people in the US like the idea of making stuff here more than the reality.

I haven't fact checked this but I do not doubt the person that said it that US manufacturing measured by output is at an all time high. Doesn't match the thinking of most people including me. That's measured by output. Not jobs though. Automation is how it comes "back to the US". Not with human labor.

There's plenty to complain about with the trade agreements made by globalists but the answer isn't being anti-free trade as some seem to think. The answer is sound money. Bitcoin fixes this.

95 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 11 Apr

If Trump or anyone wants to revitalize the US remove regulations, remove taxes, and remove the FED. Sound money and as little state intervention as possible. The US would boom like no one would believe! (in Trump's voice).

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 13 Apr

IMO

I don't believe it.

for the following reasons:

"Made in the USA." It was always a seal of quality and guarantee to last many years. (All these companies no longer manufacture with that vision) now they do it with a "fast" vision for consumption to be massive and constant.
To achieve massive consuming products and constant consumption, they must make them of lower quality so that their life time is less and the consumer must acquire another product very soon. (That need for cheap manufacturing, is what I carry companies outside the US)
Taxes and bureaucracy. Within the US, companies must have greater responsibility with their workers in many aspects. which translates into greater expense in the labor mass. Outside the US, companies allow them to manufacture their products with cheap and poor labor, which allows them to obtain greater income and greater flexibility in terms of taxes, regulations and other important aspects.

These are just some possible reasons.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @028e41e5c7 11 Apr freebie

haha , no way american don't have that detail to hard work needed to make a iphone at current prices , maybe if a iphone cost 5000 per unit they could compete.