I don't care about Chinese jobs I care about American. Apple can build a factory here and make products humanely. Tough **** if their margins aren't as good as they are taking advantage of slave labor.
This goes for all companies not just Apple. Cut the crap and bring the jobs home
Ah...so you're fine with screwing another countries workers. That's hypocritical itself.
Secondly, does reading comprehension not apply? The jobs ARE NOT coming back to America due to the skill level of the American worker. They are not skilled enough, educated enough, or motivated enough no does America have the ability to scale up and down as fast as it's Asian counterparts.
Don't know if you 2 are from America but, wow!, such a disparaging view of American workers while extolling the virtues of Chinese workers. Makes me wonder if you ever read the rest of these forums about the crappy job of performing a simple task like applying thermal paste is being done by these highly skilled, diligent Chinese workers, ha.
As you both pointed out, these workers came straight out of poverty, I wonder how they became so 'skilled'; was it some genetic trait with which they were born? You are both insinuating that American workers are incapable of learning the same tasks that the Chinese did?
I'm American and live right in D.C. You should see the entitled kids coming out of college expecting everything to be handed to them and this is in the skilled sector.
You should see the workers at the local fast food places and stores...never seen such a lazy bunch of American teenagers. It's rampant all over the local area. Even my parents see it at stores and restaurants. And they even talk about how this generation has lost any pride with any job they have.
You know the places that have workers that have good work ethics...they happen to be the fast food places run by almost all Latinos. Same with the Falls Church target, which is almost all Latinos vs the other three in Alexandria and in D.C. which have some of the laziest white and black people I've ever seen.
And yes, there is a trait that is inherit in other cultures, especially the Asian one..that encompasses hard work and long work days. Their culture has a 6 day work week. They are meticulous with details...down to the most mundane job, like putting thermal paste or connecting components. And they are fast and have more work ethic...even the young adults.
Secondly, there is another level of asian workers that didn't come from the very poor areas. These are the mid level engineers that America is not producing. Like the article says...Foxconn got 8700 mid level engineers within a matter of weeks...here it would have taken 9+ months. Who's to blame for that again?
First of all, it's absurd for people to quote how much other folks in other countries make per day without considering their lower expenses,
I've mentioned the same thing about cost of living and that their shelter and food and medical is already covered..leaving them the ability to take that other money and either buy things for themselves or save it.
Cost of living in China is vastly different then cost of living here. I'm not sure what the comparison is but if $17 a day is equal to $50 a day here in terms of cost of goods, then that's the equivalent of working at a fast food place.
Apple and competitive pricing are completely unrelated. They charge more on many things. People still buy them. Yes they add value to a lot of it, but there are a lot of trivial accessory items that just get the Apple markup.
You know...just like in the auto industry, you get what you pay for. Nicer things cost more. No one is forcing you to buy the better, nicer looking car with better features and accessories.
Many people are just fine with pay a little more, and it is a little more when you compare EXACT spec for spec, for a superior product, design, software, eco-system and user experience. Those aren't trivial things...most call them game-changers and how Apple got to this point.
Sorry you can't understand this simple concept.
