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Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do... by lumost on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:24PM (#25584383)
I think the size and complexity of FoxConn speaks for itself. Manufacture and assembly of an iphone with its constituent parts requires high precision, volume, high quality control, and massive supply chains - hence Tim Cook does not believe it could be done in the US.
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Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do... by jjoonathan on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:31PM (#25584460)
They would figure it out if they had to. The technology is not lost and for all the hate it garners the military industrial complex keeps the seeds of industry alive in the US. They would grow if there was an economic demand niche to grow into. Nobody has the stones to make it happen, though.

The labor & environmental arbitrage mafia won the war, so fixing the problem is going to be an uphill battle, rather than merely preventing the market from rolling downhill.

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Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do... by infinite_beam on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:48PM (#25584643)
> The labor & environmental arbitrage mafia won the war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyJfOPSS2Uc

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