If the past is prolog...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/iphone/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight. A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day. “The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.” But as Steven P. Jobs<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/steven_p_jobs/index.html?inline=nyt-per>of Apple<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/apple_computer_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org>spoke, President Obama<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per>interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States? Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked. Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:45 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > US may catch up China in the LENR race but then outscore the production > > to China and after some time sell of the technology to them. > > Torulf > > > > On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 23:14:13 -0500, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > > *That will be their problem. It will not stop the people who build > factories.* > > Spoken like an insensitive plutocrat that these words reveal you to be. > But this is how it is all over the world today and the advent of LENR will > unfortunately not affect this attitude in the least. > > > > > > > > > > Like you, a "great princess" once said *"Let them eat cake*”. Many of her > class who shared this same attitude eventually lost their heads as a > consequence; but now again in this modern age; LENR may be a new force, a > catalyst, and an amplifier for great social change. > > > >
