Aren’t those part of the jobs created by the investment too? Or is it considered separate from the 20K ones.
In any case, if it even created 200K jobs between some 20K main ones and 180K ancillary ones, it is still $2.5 millions per head.
But I have no clue what’s the full cost of creating a single job position in any domain.
It’s literally salary plus administration, plus perhaps a desk space. Average US salary is 75.000 USD as far as I can google, let’s get him a nice computer and round up, and call it 100k a year. For 500 billion you could pay 100.000 Americans 75k a year to play Solitaire for fifty years.
This investment is not about American jobs. It’s an investment in factory and hardware that will bring in money to Apple in the long run, and a few guys to oversee it.
One of the main tools to keep the public in check is the average person underestimating the difference between millions and billions. People tend to think the difference between ten dollars and a thousand dollars is larger than the difference between a million and a billion.
If you had a thousand dollars in your pocket, would you give one dollar to a beggar? Probably. If you had one billion dollars, that’s equivalent to handing out a million. That’s how rich billionaires are.
Edit: To add to that, if all US billionaires had zero increase in wealth in 2024 instead of increasing their already staggering wealth by a combined sum of two trillion USD, they could have given an average working wage of $50k to all 40 million Americans living below the poverty line, from newborn to 110 years old.
Without losing any wealth! But no, that would be communism, and we all know communism is bad.