Re: PING! Michael

On 2024-11-23 4:51 p.m., Michael Trew wrote:

On 11/23/2024 9:33 AM, Janet wrote:

In article <674134ab$1$3474736
$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>, michael.trew@att.net
says...

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Sorry for the DSI1 style slide off-topic, but I guess my point is that
we could make our own televisions and electronics in the US again, like
we did in the "good 'ole days".

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   All that's changed since the good ole days, is that
  China now produces 60% of the world's rare earth elements
supply and processes 90% of it.
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Plus, China has spent the last half century using modern
technology to highly educate and train a gigantic
workforce.

 While the Chinese throw notion of child labor laws to the wind, paying children bottom-dollar wages, bunking in boarding rooms, laboring 18 hour days to create electronics...  For the first world to buy at a marked up premium.  I think there is somewhere near $30 worth of parts and labor into the $1,000+ iPhones that Apple sells.

Have you noted the way that Amazon and Walmart treat their workers?
The mega-billionaires would no doubt hire children if they could so
as to save a few bucks.