Yeah, Americans have never done assembly-line work, or even anything tedious, ever... like, in the whole history.
This 200 number is almost as impressive as Apple's very generous 10% off deals during black Friday.
I was more happy when there was just 1 Jobs.
Only 200 and 100 from the other guy. Shameful. Better than no job, well suck it. Jobless Americans are by the thousands in each state, they need to do better than that crap.
Only 200 and 100 from the other guy. Shameful. Better than no job, well suck it. Jobless Americans are by the thousands in each state, they need to do better than that crap.
Will this mean a drop in quality? American manufacturing has a poor reputation compared to countries like Germany and Japan. Look at american cars they are a laughing stock.
Will this mean a drop in quality? American manufacturing has a poor reputation compared to countries like Germany and Japan. Look at american cars they are a laughing stock.
It's weird that Apple would go with Foxconn for US manufacturing. Why use the same company that causes all the problems and controversy with manufacturing in China? I mean, Apple could open up their own manufacturing facility and then not have to pay a third party anything.
Regardless, it's nice to at least get a few jobs back in the US. Here's to hoping more come along, and that people get the educations necessary to fill them.
Many of these "Jobless Americans" were making good money at some point... but their job got eliminated due to downsizing when the economy took a dive.
If you were once making $80,000 a year... but now you're jobless... I doubt you'd want to work at Apple's computer assembly factory anyway.
Oh... and there are plenty of jobs... just not many jobs like you used to have.
Again... if you were making $80,000 a year... you won't be taking a job at Staples or McDonalds (both of which are hiring at a store near you)
Will this mean a drop in quality? American manufacturing has a poor reputation compared to countries like Germany and Japan. Look at american cars they are a laughing stock.
The only reason this is happening is because our labor force has now weakened so much that they'll accept lower wages than living in this nation requires.
We're going to see plenty of manufacturing jobs come back, at less hours, less pay, little to no "benefits", and lesser working conditions. We are playing the race to the bottom (a system set up largely by the USA when it was beneficial at the beginning of globalization) and its come full circle.
Anyone that feels this way would be well served with returning to school and investing in a real degree, which instantly improves employability and salary.
Showing up and doing a job any uneducated person can be trained to do in a few weeks will be compensated accordingly.
Maybe you should do some reading on the current economy. I work at the Geeksquad as I pay my way through college part time. I have coworkers whom have their bachelors in IT & computer science, but guess what, THEY'RE WORKING AT BEST BUY. These are people who have been let go from steady good paying IT & support jobs previously.
Every month when the jobs numbers come out how about you subtract the number of retail and fast food jobs, then tell me how abundant jobs for those with degrees are.
In short, wake up.
It's not about "feeling" a certain way. The race to the bottom is a well known issue in international relations. We loved it the first 50 years because it allowed for us to get cheap goods for a booming middle class while having economic influence all over the world. Now we are getting the blowback as our own politicians try to to join the race as a way of (incorrectly) fixing the economy. Lower wages means higher profits, but it doesn't eliminate the real world debt burden of the workers, sorry, I forgot in your eyes they are lowly pieces of machinery.
So tell me, which part of my edumacation did I miss out on to not understand these well documented (for over 40 years now) economic phenomena? This is the exact scenario that has been laid out many times from the likes of Friedman all the way to Krudgman.
Having Education or a degree is not the only success factor in a professional career, it is necessary but not sufficient.
IT is the professional field with a lot of opportunities for many out there. If they want a paycheck just for showing up and have a not challenging career maybe best buy is the best they can have. If they can add value to any company then they are hired. Life is full of choices the ones you make are up to you, you are responsible of your own destiny. If SJ told the world something, was simply paraphrasing Wayne Gretzky, just google it if you don't know it.
Maybe you should do some reading on the current economy. I work at the Geeksquad as I pay my way through college part time. I have coworkers whom have their bachelors in IT & computer science, but guess what, THEY'RE WORKING AT BEST BUY. These are people who have been let go from steady good paying IT & support jobs previously.
Every month when the jobs numbers come out how about you subtract the number of retail and fast food jobs, then tell me how abundant jobs for those with degrees are.
In short, wake up.
It's not about "feeling" a certain way. The race to the bottom is a well known issue in international relations. We loved it the first 50 years because it allowed for us to get cheap goods for a booming middle class while having economic influence all over the world. Now we are getting the blowback as our own politicians try to to join the race as a way of (incorrectly) fixing the economy. Lower wages means higher profits, but it doesn't eliminate the real world debt burden of the workers, sorry, I forgot in your eyes they are lowly pieces of machinery.
So tell me, which part of my edumacation did I miss out on to not understand these well documented (for over 40 years now) economic phenomena? This is the exact scenario that has been laid out many times from the likes of Friedman all the way to Krudgman.
The value of a computer science degree has shrank dramatically as the number of degreed applicants has far outpaced job growth in that sector. Translation, computer science majors are a dime a dozen so business can drive wages down because there is no shortage of eager applicants who desperately want a check and experience.
It's not all that mysterious. It doesn't help that many computer science majors can't code worth a damn which is the much greater educational commodity these days when it comes to IT; compared to your typical Devry and Stevens Henagar A+, N+, MCSE paper tiger even though both may have computer science degrees.
They are only there because of mass layoffs, one was at his workplace for over 20 years and is now un-hirable in that field because of his age. Way to ignore the state of the world, have fun in your fantasies.
By the way, the underlined sounds like a pathetically narrow econ 101 class. You know, the intro class that everyone takes to get an understanding of the model. Then you take the other classes that focus on all the exceptions that actually drive the economic reasoning.
Race to the bottom, read up on it, then take a look out your window and tell me that is not exactly what is going on at the macro level.
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Seriously, go read up on the race to the bottom, it covers the boom and bust of specific fields. Everything you're saying fall exactly into that model, you're fully agreeing with me whether you realize it or not.
Both Steve Jobs and Tim Cook have stated that the reason manufacturing isn't done in the US is that we don't teach the skills in our schools anymore that are needed for these jobs. I've even heard them say that the education system would need to be reformed to bring manufacturing jobs to the US.
I have never understood this.
I in no way want to devalue to the service and work by people who work in manufacturing, but what are the skills they're talking about? Even if you had a background in engineering, you'd need the same on-the-job training for putting together an iPhone as anyone else.
Frankly, because this has always sounded like BS to me (and there perhaps is an angle of it I don't get), I was frustrated that Brian Williams didn't challenge Tim Cook when he repeated that famous explanation.
So, I started thinking to myself, if these are jobs which Americans are too ignorant to work at, presumably we'll be extending work visas to Chinese people who are educated in the ways of manufacturing to come to the US to work at this new factory.
So tell me, which part of my edumacation did I miss out on to not understand these well documented (for over 40 years now) economic phenomena? This is the exact scenario that has been laid out many times from the likes of Friedman all the way to Krudgman.
It's not a race to the bottom. It's common sense and good education and career planning.
The same thing happened to business majors 15 years ago and lawyers 10 years ago. Saturation kills demand and pay. It is classic supply and demand, not some nefarious globalist master plan.