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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supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 1 week agoit’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
mechoman444@lemmy.world 6 days ago
supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 6 days ago
However unemployment figures suggest that would be impossible to do in practice.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 6 days 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?
supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s ~4% that is typically considered low but even if it wasn’t.
It’s not one assembly line, and one product only… it’s every component from the chips to the glass, screen, circuit board and then the final one on.
You would need also experienced people in every part you would need to manufacture including engineers that are in short supply, an nevermind building the factories etc…
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 week 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!
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Meh, once they grow up their things aren’t nimble enough to assemble stuff any more. Waste of energy training them.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 week 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.