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mudil on Jan 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

If you don't have factories, even robotic ones, you don't have engineers, middle management, suppliers, distributors, etc etc.

And these are not sucky jobs.

angstrom on Jan 21, 2012 [–]

They're not, but the supply chains are already in place, which brings up the other elephant in the room. If labor isn't the issue pollution is. As EPA laws tightened China's lax oversight beckoned. It's not easy to find a place in the US that will look the other way and is located close to labor/transportation.

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