Americans do plenty of so-called "crappy jobs" for the paycheck, if the received amount justifies the crap they have to do. There's work to be done and we can't have 300+ million engineers in one country. Maybe should take a look around at the world you live in.

You don't speak for all Americans. Many would be happy to do it.

> You don't speak for all Americans. Many would be happy to do it.

Perhaps.

But if they took jobs with approximate pay and work conditions that the Chinese FoxConn employees in company-cities have, that wouldn't look anything like a modern American job.

It would look far more like an American coal mining job in the 1920s where workers toil under enormous pressure for meager wages and owe most of them (of not all or more) back to the company town for housing and food. This is AFAICT an accurate description of some of the worst working conditions of FoxConn.

And if there is such demand to work in such conditions, then how hasn't some enterprising American company started and supplied that dirt-cheap labor? There isn't enough supply of labor for the demand that you imagine exists.

not everyone is an engineer either