• supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    it’s not just acost the issue, there’s not enough skilled people to actually build them.

    Industrial engineers, people that would be willing to assemble devices would be in short supply

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      1 day ago

      If you offer good pay and good benefits at a decent working environment people will flock to assembly lines in the US. Christ they were basically invented here.

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          15 hours ago

          No. No it doesn’t.

          There are 7.1 million people unemployed in the US officially. Realistically that number is probably much, much higher.

          You’re saying apple can’t hire a few hundred people to work on an assembly line?

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      2 days ago

      As someone who has done a bunch of phone repairs with the help of YouTube, assembly isn’t that hard. If they don’t want to assemble them here, it’s completely about profit margins. We should be taking steps to reduce that profit margin. Tax the rich and all that.

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      2 days ago

      China uses little kids to build them. If we did the same in the US, America s would want to have MORE CHILDREN because they would literally pay for themselves!

      Just imagine if all middle schools in the US required 2 hours of iPhone assembly per day. It would be excellent industrial training for the future generation!