The New York Times published an article with a strange and bigoted claim about Asian women and manufacturing at Apple.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    24 days ago

    and those can be replicated elsewhere

    Apple isn’t in the process of spending billions over decades to train people just to install screws…

    Like, fuck Apple, I’ve never owned a single Apple product. But they wouldn’t have spent that much for so long to train people for unskilled labor.

    Quick edit:

    Apple in China[1] is a 2025 book by Patrick McGee[2][3][4] (Financial Times reporter[5] from 2013 to 2023[6]), about how Apple Inc. invested in China in order to build iPhones and other technology, and by doing so helped China become more competitive. In the book, McGee says that under Tim Cook Apple invested $275 billion over five years from 2016. McGee compares this to the Marshall Plan as this is in excess of other corporate spending. McGee says the Marshall Plan was about half Apple’s investment, in real terms.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_in_China

    275,000,000,000 over five years…

    That’s 55 billion a year, for five years straight.

    It doesn’t cost that much to train someone to put a screw in

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      24 days ago

      Sure, but it does cost that much to build a suite of factories complete w/ automation and whatnot. Buildings are expensive, especially high tech ones, but that doesn’t mean the labor involved is particularly high skill. Components, processes, software, etc are still largely designed by highly skilled workers in western countries.

      Yes, there are some skilled jobs there, but the ratio is much lower for the employees in China than domestically.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        24 days ago

        Yes, there are some skilled jobs there, but the ratio is much lower for the employees in China than domestically.

        You can just keep repeating the same thing over and over again despite it being wrong…

        Doesn’t make it true tho, just makes other people eventually stop responding