Got any more of that hyperbole? Or maybe outdated xenophobia?
The average manufacturing salary in China is around $13,000 a year, in a country where cost of living is 50% lower than the US and rent is 75% lower.
China is actually a place with relatively high manufacturing labor costs these days, but it's a production center for a lot of industries and holds a lot of the ecosystems and institutional knowledge (not unlike all the automotive parts suppliers in the American Midwest).
Not sure the religious remarks intention, but there's jails / prisons where prisoners do labor in exchange for very low compensation. Considering you get billed for being jailed, I would personally prefer working than to mount up debt I have no way of managing.
If you dont mind dropping the religious aspect i think you already have the rest via the Prison-Industries Act; as cheap as an Asian child but with the strength and intelligence of the US adult prison population.
The closest you can get is the Mac Pro line starting with the Trashcan Mac Pro.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/after-federal-break-appl...
Depends, Do you have 10 year olds who will work for 18c an hour?
Or do you have consumers who will pay for the difference?
People already pay a premium on Macs to be honest. Every hard drive upgrade is ridiculously overpriced.
"Minecraft proves that the children yearn for the mines"
Way less than they used to. The Mac "premium" has been declining for decades.
Stands to follow that many of their new customers are price-sensitive.
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Marginal cost added probably isn't that much. How many manhours does a mac take to build?
Got any more of that hyperbole? Or maybe outdated xenophobia?
The average manufacturing salary in China is around $13,000 a year, in a country where cost of living is 50% lower than the US and rent is 75% lower.
China is actually a place with relatively high manufacturing labor costs these days, but it's a production center for a lot of industries and holds a lot of the ecosystems and institutional knowledge (not unlike all the automotive parts suppliers in the American Midwest).
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-l...
And yet…
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Unfortunately the USA doesn't have religious prisoners who can be coerced into a factory as slave labor.
Not sure the religious remarks intention, but there's jails / prisons where prisoners do labor in exchange for very low compensation. Considering you get billed for being jailed, I would personally prefer working than to mount up debt I have no way of managing.
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You might be on to something though!
If you dont mind dropping the religious aspect i think you already have the rest via the Prison-Industries Act; as cheap as an Asian child but with the strength and intelligence of the US adult prison population.
Hold on im going to write this down.
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we do have a lot of prisoners though, and they do various factory kinda jobs. probably not high skill ones though?
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13th amendment buddy. Slavery was never fully outlawed in the US
None of the people assembling Apple products in China are 10-year-olds making $0.18 an hour.
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-l...
Humanoid robot workers are going to have a massive impact on industries like this. 'cheap labor' will no longer be isolated to certain regions.