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Re:Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India by anovikov on Sunday December 04, 2022 @05:08AM (#33852229)
Truth is, there is no way to profitably produce any durable consumer products without dealing with someone who treats workers like trash, simply because everyone else is also doing this. Of course, we have a choice of them being Commies (China), or not being Commies (India), but that's about it.

Only way to fundamentally fix it will be to introduce a new Iron Curtain where we will "not trade with anyone we don't control", and that might work after a few frustrating years of high inflation and shortages, but will be too politically costly to try.

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Re:Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India by sofixa on Sunday December 04, 2022 @05:42AM (#33852408)
> Truth is, there is no way to profitably produce any durable consumer products without dealing with someone who treats workers like trash, simply because everyone else is also doing this

In some cases that's true, but in the case of Apple - the one higher cost "luxury" products, with double digit percent profit margins, tens of billions of cash and trillion dollar market cap - it doesn't really make sense as an excuse.

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Re:Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India by ekianjo on Sunday December 04, 2022 @06:23AM (#33852612)
Apple has grown to this size because they had a much better margin than its competitors in the first place. If they built everything in America they would have disappeared long ago.
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Re:Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India by vouwfietsman on Sunday December 04, 2022 @06:07AM (#33852514)
Calling China Commies is misplaced, its a self proclaimed communist state in the same way that North Korea is a self proclaimed democratic state. I think (not sure) China is mostly seen as "state-capitalist" by experts, which means a capitalist market with heavy state control & influence.

To label China as communist is similar to labeling the US as a company: it's a misrepresentation of the truth and says more about the labeler than about the country itself.

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