• aceshigh@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    The reason why manufacturing was moved offshore was because it cost more money to produce the goods in the states and they had to adhere to us regulation. Products are cheap because they’re build offshore. No one actually wants the factory jobs back in the states because they’ll be too expensive to produce, and a lot of the jobs will be done by bots anyway. If the iPhone was the be built in the states it would cost $3.5k. Billionaires want a peasant class. They’re envious of China - lots of low educated people earning nothing working long hours. Billionaires have low self esteem.

    • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Yes of course it was because of money. They couldn’t see it then and they cant see it now.