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[Assertn]

If all your competitors cut costs brutally and you don't, you'll lose your business sooner or later. Even companies like Apple who have millions of loyal zombies are producing their stuff in the cheap labour countries and have been involved in scandals about horrible working conditions in those outsourced production plants.

Obama raised the question about bringing factory jobs back to the US to Steve Jobs, and his response is that it will never come back. Not only is it cheaper to have the factories overseas, the employees at those factories tend to be much more efficient as well. One of the recent generation iPhones needed to have all their screens replaced 3 weeks before the public release, and the new screens were shipped to the factories, workers were brought in that night from the dormitories near the factories, and the whole system to implement the new screens were operational within a day or so.

There's a lot of crazy work ethic out there.

[Munsu]

Obama raised the question about bringing factory jobs back to the US to Steve Jobs, and his response is that it will never come back. Not only is it cheaper to have the factories overseas, the employees at those factories tend to be much more efficient as well. One of the recent generation iPhones needed to have all their screens replaced 3 weeks before the public release, and the new screens were shipped to the factories, workers were brought in that night from the dormitories near the factories, and the whole system to implement the new screens were operational within a day or so.

There's a lot of crazy work ethic out there.

Perfect example is how the Steel Workers Union forced Obama to put a 25-35% additional tax to tires imported from China and what that ended up doing is completely messed up the tire industry. American tire companies simply looked for factories in alternative countries, and raised their prices substantially now that they didn't have the cheap tires weighing them down instead of providing cheaper alternatives which was the idea behind the tax.

[Animeniax]

Obama raised the question about bringing factory jobs back to the US to Steve Jobs, and his response is that it will never come back. Not only is it cheaper to have the factories overseas, the employees at those factories tend to be much more efficient as well. One of the recent generation iPhones needed to have all their screens replaced 3 weeks before the public release, and the new screens were shipped to the factories, workers were brought in that night from the dormitories near the factories, and the whole system to implement the new screens were operational within a day or so.

There's a lot of crazy work ethic out there.

It's not really work ethic... it's do or die. People aren't given the option to work late hours or come in at night for an emergency, they are forced to. Sooner or later, the drones will revolt, and manufacturing in southeast Asian countries will fall. It may never return to the US, but it won't be sustainable in any human population.

[Y]

Obama raised the question about bringing factory jobs back to the US to Steve Jobs, and his response is that it will never come back. Not only is it cheaper to have the factories overseas, the employees at those factories tend to be much more efficient as well. One of the recent generation iPhones needed to have all their screens replaced 3 weeks before the public release, and the new screens were shipped to the factories, workers were brought in that night from the dormitories near the factories, and the whole system to implement the new screens were operational within a day or so.

There's a lot of crazy work ethic out there.

They have "great work ethic" because these facilities are perhaps one step removed from a slave labor operation or a prison farm.