The iPhone Economy

[Simfan34]

I read the accompanying article yesterday and I was just exahusted by the time I was through with it. It's quite telling in regards to the fact that that those jobs lost are not lost due wages per se, but the lack of a supply chain. That did not have to be the case. The US needs a coherent industrial policy now. We need mass industrial skills education, even if paid with taxpayer monies, major infrastructural investment, and immigration reform to bring in the best minds and even mid-level managers. Jobs is wrong. We can get these jobs back. But we don't have the will.

However we can, in a way, blame the hipsters for their Mac-obsession as they, as Wonkish said, justify Apple's high prices.

[Simfan34]

... We can get these jobs back. But we don't have the will.

No problem, the only way to get them back is to reduce the average wage to around $5/hour.  And the controllers certainly have the will to do that.. its coming soon.

Nonsense. If you read the article you'll see it's not about wages. It's about...

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[Simfan34]

Poor Germans and Japanese, dying of unmitigated pollution for their positive trade balances (Japan, not so much last year).

[Simfan34]

Poor Germans and Japanese, dying of unmitigated pollution for their positive trade balances (Japan, not so much last year).

Too soon, dude.  Too soon.


Anyway very little of the iphone is built in Germany or Japan.  Look it up if you don't believe me.

That was the effects of a natural disaster. It could have happened here; it doesn't pertain to pollution. As your point was, the pollution of Chinese manufacturing would clearly be replicated here. Your example is not industrial pollution.

[Simfan34]

Poor Germans and Japanese, dying of unmitigated pollution for their positive trade balances (Japan, not so much last year).

Too soon, dude.  Too soon.


Anyway very little of the iphone is built in Germany or Japan.  Look it up if you don't believe me.

That was the effects of a natural disaster. It could have happened here; it doesn't pertain to pollution. As your point was, the pollution of Chinese manufacturing would clearly be replicated here. Your example is not industrial pollution.

It was a joke.

I presume that is an admission of the hollowness of your original point that we'd suffer from pollution.

As per the other part, I'm talking about manufacturing in general. It doesn't have to be an iPhone.