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And then there's this idiot talking about screws in iPhones. Is this even how iPhones are built? Piles of hidden screws?

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lm5p4tdc6a2c

So many screws that we should have human American workers installing screws in iPhones? And this is how we make American workers wealthier?

They think we're stupid or they want us to be stupid. This isn't an economic policy. It's a way to reward fealty and punish disloyalty, to a specific person.




I’m not gonna tell you Lutnick is smart, but did you watch the clip or just read Rupar’s quote? He’s clearly saying that electronics manufacturers are leaning on low-wage foreign labor as a crutch to avoid the cost of investing in more innovative automated assembly strategies.


"that kind of thing is going to come to America... and be automated". Pretty disingenuous cut on the quote there by the bluesky post.




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