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To: central_va

I was being conservative. Probably less than half. The average manufacturing wage in US is $15, in Mexico $1.50, in India a buck, Cambodia less than a buck, although the cost of material which are the major cost in product manufacture may not be as disparate worldwide as the labor cost We need not debate this as you seem to be pretty hot on the issue and would rather have the facts align with your opinion rather than the other way around. You may want to google it and discuss it with some other subscriber rather than get into angry opinion discussion with me which I try to avoid on this board as I am more fact oriented.


26 posted on 05/10/2019 6:17:59 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: chuckee
Chuckee you have to look a the PER UNIT COST not the hourly wage. For for most durable goods labor is around 10% of the retail price.

Take autos. It take around 30 man hours to make 1 car. If you double wages it does not double the price of the car. Get it?

The labor per iPhone is $16.00USD. If made in America and you paid 10x the cost of labor the labor per phone would be $160.00. So a $800.00 phone would be $960. Take away lower energy and transpiration costs higher productivity of US workers and the $160 margin is reduced drastically.

27 posted on 05/10/2019 6:25:00 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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