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Tim Cook: "I want there to be" American-made Apple products
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Apple should keep assembling everything in other affordable countries
Companies were never loyal. It's just much easier to manufacture things thousands of miles from where you sell them and do business now than it was decades ago thanks to the ease and reduced cost of shipping, transportation and communication that technology has brought us.The problem isn't outsourcing -- it's loyalty. At one point, companies felt a certain obligation to support their communities, states, and countries, and were satisfied with "merely" being profitable. Those days are long gone, and now companies exist simply to push profits to their maximum potential in order to satisfy shareholders -- and they'll do it any way they can, by hook or by crook.
Paying one american worker is equal to 10 chinese workers... simple math