News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Parent comment

Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by flubert on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:00PM (#14266516)
>> Cook told "60 Minutes” in 2015. “I mean, you can take every tool and die maker in the United States and probably put them in a room that we’re currently sitting in. In China, you would have to have multiple football fields.”

The BLS seems to think there are 72,000 tool and die makers in the U.S..

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes514111.htm#(1)

>I have shared this quote with every middle/lower-middle class person I know who voted for Trump and their responses have all been the same, horror.

...which quote, the tool-and-die-maker quote, or the jobs-aren't-coming-back quote?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by abritinthebay on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:01PM (#14267155)
I think Cook was more talking about representatives from each company - not everyone employed by them.

There are an order of magnitude more people employed as tool and die makers in China anyhow so, even if you do use that as a metric, the broader point still stands.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by flubert on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:55PM (#14267646)
>There are an order of magnitude more people employed as tool and die makers in China

Do you have a recommendation for a source for employment statistics like that for China? In English? A quick search hasn't turned up much, but there must be something out there like that.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by abritinthebay on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:55AM (#14274369)
Numbers are sparce it's true. I based the order of magnitude comment on a line saying there were "over 100k companies" doing similar work in China on a Business Insider article.

It's probably reasonable to assume a decent company size so... seemed ballpark accurate

[ Parent | on HN ]