You have to have guys who can build and set up and maintain and operate those machines and be taught things, and for 40+ years we've done everything we can to steer those kinds of guys away from anything to do with manufacturing, so your potential manufacturing employee pool is going to have a lot of junkies and non-white guys in it. It might be fixable but it probably won't be fixable in under 2 years, which could turn out badly in the next election, and if we lose that one then everything Trump has done will be thrown out by President Newsom/Buttigieg/AOC in 2028.
That's the most immediate problem, the last generation of high IQ, highly motivated White men died off or retired without passing anything on. Already the tech infrastructure that postwar society depended on is reaching Atlantis-tier mythical Magitek in comparison to the cut-rate "work" done by illegals and H1B jeets.
Precision machining still exists in America, it's just all focused towards aerospace and weapons manufacturing.
Apple would simply have to pay such people a wage competitive with what they receive from aerospace and weapons production. Which would be a lot but not hit the bottom line of an individual iPhone that much given that it's mostly to do with people who have experience setting up automated factories, CAD/CAM programming etc, rather than producing a single unit of whatever.
The article is also dumb given that they're pretending the unit cost of an iPhone is $3000 rather than accurately understanding that the actual cost is vastly less and Apple simply massively overcharges, and could take a hit to their profit margin while onshoring production, or (more likely) offset the cost to their users and it'd be more like $3500 or $4000 rather than $30000 (ridiculous made up number with nothing backing it, obviously).
You have to have guys who can build and set up and maintain and operate those machines and be taught things, and for 40+ years we've done everything we can to steer those kinds of guys away from anything to do with manufacturing, so your potential manufacturing employee pool is going to have a lot of junkies and non-white guys in it. It might be fixable but it probably won't be fixable in under 2 years, which could turn out badly in the next election, and if we lose that one then everything Trump has done will be thrown out by President Newsom/Buttigieg/AOC in 2028.
That's the most immediate problem, the last generation of high IQ, highly motivated White men died off or retired without passing anything on. Already the tech infrastructure that postwar society depended on is reaching Atlantis-tier mythical Magitek in comparison to the cut-rate "work" done by illegals and H1B jeets.
Then we steer them back with dump trucks full of cash.
I also accept gold, guns, steel, brass and heirloom seeds.
Precision machining still exists in America, it's just all focused towards aerospace and weapons manufacturing.
Apple would simply have to pay such people a wage competitive with what they receive from aerospace and weapons production. Which would be a lot but not hit the bottom line of an individual iPhone that much given that it's mostly to do with people who have experience setting up automated factories, CAD/CAM programming etc, rather than producing a single unit of whatever.
The article is also dumb given that they're pretending the unit cost of an iPhone is $3000 rather than accurately understanding that the actual cost is vastly less and Apple simply massively overcharges, and could take a hit to their profit margin while onshoring production, or (more likely) offset the cost to their users and it'd be more like $3500 or $4000 rather than $30000 (ridiculous made up number with nothing backing it, obviously).
if india can do it, I'm sure america can