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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Which is why the price would dramatically go up. Labor is cheap in China because it’s plentiful, labor is expensive here because it’s not. Making iPhones here means diverting labor from other good jobs.

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  • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No I mean it wouldn’t be possible to make them here, if you tried to build a series of factories they would not have enough workers. It’s like an order of magnitude scale difference, the largest industrial plant in the US is 30k workers and in China the big one for iPhones is 350k. And that is 350k people working super long hours. Even in China labor isn’t plentiful anymore, there is shortages of labor in the coastal areas. You try to hire a staffing firm and tell them you want 300k skilled workers in a city and they’ll just laugh at you.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you increase wages high enough, you’ll get the workers. However, that’ll have negative effects for whatever those workers were doing before.

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