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Energy and the Environment Are they two competing things, or both the same thing? Oil, Drilling & Alternative Energies and environmental policies |
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To paraphrase one of Billy Clinton's campaign managers, "It's the labor, stupid." Everything else is not only secondary, it's not even in the top ten list.
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I didn't bother with the rest of the list, but the first and only that matters, Apple:
Where Are Apple iPods Manufactured? "Apple iPods, iPhones, and other products are manufactured for Apple by Foxconn, a Taiwan-based company (technically, Foxconn is the company’s trade name; the firm’s official name is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd). The iPod and iPhone are manufactured in Shenzen, China, though Foxconn maintains factories in countries across the world, including Thailand, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines." The difference, of course, is that the car industry had enough pull to successfully lobby for import tariffs back before industry at large got the Better Idea - outsourcing.
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Mobile phone makers by country
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Ah yes. The molds where they stamp out the "designed in California" plastic details.
Meanwhile, everything that they actually charge for - from electronics to screen - is MIC. (Although, being Apple, that designed in California is about half of what they actually charge for, so you do have a point.) The reason cars are still made in the West is that there are tariffs against social and environmental dumping applied, which makes car manufacturers have assembly plants here as a pay-off against the cost of doing business. In most other industries, where our globalist betters have sold the notion of "free trade", such pay-offs are not necessary and thus do not happen. Apparently lots of conservatives are under the impression that this is a good thing, because dead-weight losses.
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