So classy...https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-china-factory-protests-foxconn-manufacturing-production-supply-chain
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U.S. probably should have gone to India for manufacturing from the beginning. The Chinese work harder than Indians, but they steal our tech. On the other hand, we've been pumping so much money into India, but they still don't have a large tech company at the scale of Tencent, JD, etc. They just have offices of U.S. tech companies and their own slave-for-contract companies. Your tech is safe with India because they don't know what to do with it.
Just think about it this way: the U.S.'s adversary is Russia and China, while India is still worried about Pakistan.
@djz+1k17ytXU, brave new world?
Have you ever been to a Foxconn facility? They're actually really nice. Olympic sized swimming pools, huge theaters, great food, modern medical facilities. It's decades ahead of anything you see Stateside, and the hours are no worse than you get at Intel or Qualcomm. With cost of living you're pretty good, and you can get a job anywhere afterwards. It's so desired they can hire literally 50,000 engineers in a single day. Not regular factory workers, but college edjimicated engineers. Speaking of which, did you know friggin Mexico had more EEs than the USA for ages? That's where we're at. The spend at Vietnamese factories is less, but those are still a damn sight better than any onshore factory that isn't Intel, Samsung, or Tesla, which has some of the lowest wages and benefits in the domestic car industry on the floor. Yeah the hours suck, and everyone lives on campus, but who'd want to live with the nightmare commutes unless you've got a McMansion? Now Zero-COVID obviously sucks azz, going on year four, and everyone thinks its insane, but no one is more afraid of the CCP's business policy than Chinese businesses.