Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro calls it "inconceivable" that Apple can't produce iPhones outside China

Wtf is it with all these noob posts in history and economics.

1. Sweat shop workers ain't happening in America again

2. You can't reverse globalisation faster than a nuns first curry... So get your head out of your arse and stop thinking you can manufacture an iPhone and all it's components in 1x place. - and if you wanna understand this better read and learn about electronic components instead of posting bullsh$$!

3. You wanna bring manufacturing back to the US like they wanna bring back to OZ - stop foreign ownership of companies! Make better product than what is imported. Don't start with complex products until you have manufactured simple products. That's it. Simples!

Eg. Simple+Simple+Simple+Simple=Complex!

According to your Econ 101 class, the ultimate goal of reducing costs and maximizing shareholder value is to outsource all production to Communist and or Dictatorship countries, since their cost of labor will always provide the lowest costs of production, and let the the US and Europe finish their shift to a 100% service economy.

Like socialism, where everyone works and everyone shares equally in the bounty, you get the maximum equitable distribution of goods and services.

The only small problem with Econ 101 theories comes from Psycology 101. The human vices of greed and envy negatively affect distribution of wealth, and the lack of a reward motivation affects production.

Note: While still affected on the production side, the Communist and Dictatorship models can minimize loss of production through negative reinforcement. While these same forms of government usually have a small group of leaders/decision makers that also control distribution to positively or negatively create motivation.

Bonus questions: When the shift of manufacturing and services is complete, and the service economies no longer produce anything, what mechanism in this system maintains the established balance of value between goods and services? (Hint: Which group can live without the other, the producers or the service providers?)

Footnote: Emerging economies are discussed in Econ 201, but for the purposes of this discussion, the skill set is low and limits what can be produced. And once they emerge, the then join world economy and fold into one of the two camps.
 
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Well they figured out how to make them in India, so why is it impossible in America? The poor multi trillion dollar corpo can't figure out how to source screws without slave labor?
You answered your own question. Apple will prefer their consumers to pay 25% tariffs any day than doubling or tripling their prices. But is not just the manufacturing, is also the chains of supply. And the huge cost of building high tech mega-factories and industrial corridors from scratch. And let´s say they do that.. it will be mostly automated in order to be cost effective, so those jobs will never materialize...
 
People underestimate how complex Apple's supply chain probably is. It's not just about moving factories... it's about replicating an entire manufacturing ecosystem that took decades to build. No amount of political pressure can fast-track that.

Final assembly in the US might be the most realistic middle ground. It gives Apple some political cover without completely disrupting the logistics and supplier relationships that make current iPhones possible at scale.
 
"And my problem with Tim Cook is he never takes the steps to actually do that."

Haha... he only has to put it off another 3ish years and he can stop pretending to do it.
 
People underestimate how complex Apple's supply chain probably is. It's not just about moving factories... it's about replicating an entire manufacturing ecosystem that took decades to build. No amount of political pressure can fast-track that.

Final assembly in the US might be the most realistic middle ground. It gives Apple some political cover without completely disrupting the logistics and supplier relationships that make current iPhones possible at scale.
Yes apparently Apple has been spending around $50 BILLION per year for many years IN CHINA building their supply chain components. And just to be clear moving such an operation back to the US would take a LOT more.
 
It's not the idiocy, the blatant bribery or the chaotic stream of commands that gets me ... it's the use of double negatives. Grrrrr!
 
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