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Abolishinist

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2. For now, yes. However, within the next 10-15 years they will bring
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 12:40 PM
Jun 2025

the manufacturing back to the U.S., providing good jobs for Gen Z and their offspring. And from what I can tell, they should absoutely LOVE the work! For example, this guy went underground to work in a facility in Shanhai that made iphones.

"I spent 12 hours a day just putting one screw in the iPhone. I work in a patron Apple factory in Shanghai, so what I do is just put one screw that fastens the speaker to the back case of the iPhone. We will start in the factories at 7:30 and then will spend 12 hours inside of the factories, but actually we only do 10 and 1/2 hours work because the break time is deducted.

You get bored because like you're just repeatedly doing the same thing. The amount that I get is 3,100 y, I think that's around $450 it's per month, but it's included in the base salary plus the overtime. We only take a break once a week on Sunday."


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