We don't need everyone to have a degree in Intercultural/Multicultural and Diversity Studies
Slave labor is make it or DIE
You're right, they don't have any degrees in multicultural studies or womyn's rights, either.
Somewhere, Mike Rowe weeps quietly to himself.
We don't need everyone to have a degree in Intercultural/Multicultural and Diversity Studies
Female infiltration of male spaces and the feminine imperative at work: always followed by "where have all the good men gone?"
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Yeah. And that $1.25 hr. wage is a real problem, too.
So why does Apple make the Mac Pro in the U.S.?
They have a LOT of foreign workers there. And it is all highly skilled labor. Computer technicians and electrical engineers from all over the globe.
Even to my untrained eye, I could see a pecking order on the floor of the facility. Most of the computers were being fixed by foreigners, and the Americans were doing the moving, sorting, packing and custodial work.
We have 90 million adult Americans who are not in the labor force. These people live off the government or their relatives. Certainly some are old, sick unable, but regardless, this a historically huge and unprecedented amount of the population to have doing nothing.
Our progressive nanny state paid for with printed, fake, manipulated Federal Reserve dollars has turned many Americans into slugs. Many Americans couldn't and wouldn't assemble or build anything if their lives depended on it. Its a simple truth.
These aren’t genius level jobs.
Practice and training will get you the same skills from Americans. It’s the cheap wages, and huge profit margins, that he only cares about.
Yeah, they can make the same product for $2 a day instead of $15/hr. And they can make more of the same product because they work 12 hour days instead of 8.
I don’t think the US Government (at least one under Trump) would put up with the number of suicides of employees that China does. The work conditions are horrendous. They live in huge dorms with thousands of other people and work in long shifts, sleep then work again. They are constantly assigned new jobs so that they cannot develop friendships with other ‘workers’.
Pure BS.
“The U.S., over time, began to stop having as many vocational skills.”
It wasn’t a valid point; Americans could no longer make a living at those jobs (either because they were sent overseas, or because wages fell too steeply). Red China didn’t produce factory workers to raise crops; they produce them because our factory jobs went over there - and our factory workers were idled. College might not be the answer, but investing time & money learning a formerly lucrative trade doesn’t make much sense either.
This would be akin to bemoaning the fact that American students don’t study cost accounting anymore; it was tailored primarily for a manufacturing environment, and that work left with those jobs. If the owners of those closed factories complained about the lack of cost accountants twenty years later, they’d rightly be mocked for it.
Cook & Co. CAUSED THIS.
Total BS. it comes down to the very cheap labor in China. it takes ZERO skills to assemble a iPhone. Any monkey can be trained to do it. So, while Apple touts huge profits in the hundreds of billion of dollars, they cheap out and refuse to spend that money in America to hire Americans to build products sold to Americans.
I fully believe every country should demand products sold in their country be made in their country to the greatest extent possible. I have no problem with Apple making products in Europe to sell to Europe, and making them in China to sell to the Chinese, but this idea that Americans cannot make the products is an outright lie to try to hide the fact that Apple would not suffer loss of profits if they made Products outside of cheap Chinese labor. They have massive record profits.
I think if they put the factory in Detroit and lightened up on the slave labor conditions it would be a great thing and would work out very well, for everyone.
And America would be behind it 100%.
How much skill does it take to contaminate goods with lead? The Chinese are proficient at this.
How long has it been since Americans have had the CHANCE to manufacture for Apple???
Reminding me once again why I despise Apple and have not, and will not, buy their products.
Cook is lying.
Cook’s rich, lily-white Democrats have: 1. Created an anti-business regulatory climate, especially regarding environmental rules that force businesses overseas. They have exported deadly pollution to China but don’t care.
2. Destroyed the American education system that could have prepared several generations of young people to compete in the worldwide market. And they did it through creation of unions for government workers, unions whose only purpose was to support Democrats in office.
Now, of course, GOPe Repubicans stand for the same things.