The White House is insisting that Donald Trump’s vision of Apple’s flagship iPhones being manufactured in the US will come to fruition, despite assertions from analysts and the company itself that it would not be possible.
The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters during Tuesday’s briefing that the president believed Apple’s recently announced $500bn investment, as well as increasing import costs sparked by his trade tariffs, would encourage the company to ramp up manufacturing in the US.
“He believes we have the labor, we have the workforce, we have the resources to do it. If Apple didn’t think the US could do it, they probably wouldn’t have put up that big chunk of change,” she said.
You mean children. There are already children working in meat packing plants, also in automotive assembly, and elsewhere. We only hear about the companies that got caught and paid the little fine to go back to doing it.
America’s future to do the jobs that left long ago will be to have children, prisoners, any of the downtrodden handling the manufacture. Similar to how crop harvesting will be handled in the more-near future as all the immigrants are sent away to a hole. Labor shortage? Well, a new random crime just surfaced to resupply the work camps. Perhaps people with “gang” tattoos.
If it were to happen, it’s not going to be some magic utopia with Joe High School grad walking into the assembly plant post-WWII and buying 2 houses, a boat, and providing for a family of four. It will be just as bad as China, or worse, and “at home.” America’s Golden Shower Age isn’t coming back.
No matter who makes it, it’s still going to suck for them, until these processes are fully automated and no human is making them.
Is any of it right? No. Can we solve it? Sure, stop buying iPhones, stop being a consumer, buy the bare minimum, stop buying into retail culture. Vote people into office that care about fair labor practices across the country. There are shitty jobs that pay handsomely, oil rig work, industrial fishing, people make a lot of money doing very life-threatening work. It is completely possible these jobs could exist and pay well, but the consumer masses will balk at the cost.
More so, in the lens of right now, not gonna happen. America will be lucky to be a Democracy in a year’s time.