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A comment on Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production to India. Parent comment
Yes you do.
"Low-skill" workers with basic education (reading, writing, counting, some understanding of some scientific concepts) will simply perform better.
And you still need engineers and other high-skill workers to supervise, maintain, perform quality control, improve methods etc..
The thing is China (at least until quite recently) had a huge quantity of those and at a rather low price.
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Yes you do.
"Low-skill" workers with basic education (reading, writing, counting, some understanding of some scientific concepts) will simply perform better.
And you still need engineers and other high-skill workers to supervise, maintain, perform quality control, improve methods etc..
The thing is China (at least until quite recently) had a huge quantity of those and at a rather low price.