Why the U.S. Trails China in Phone Manufacturing

[khansaheeb]

That guy's mind has been stuck in the past and thought China was just the same 10 years ago

富士康一个月多少钱？ 平均工资￥15070/月，其中拿20K-30K 工资的人占比最多达31.7%，其次是6K-8K 占19.9%， 8K-10K 占13.6%，该数据统计于该企业近一年在各网站发布的公开薪酬，仅供参考。
How much does Foxconn pay per month? The average salary is ￥15070/month ( $2,155 USD ), of which 31.7% earn 20K-30K wages, followed by 6K-8K accounting for 19.9%, and 8K-10K accounting for 13.6%. The published salaries are for reference only.

It is not just the salary that needs to be looked at but what they can buy with that salary too. If the average salary is ￥15070/month ( $2,155 USD ) the Chinese worker can have the same food, apartment and quality of living as a 410/per month US worker then the salaries are "equivalent". If not then the difference should be noted.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Sure, and i was saying its entirely possible to gather people in factory dormitories in large numbers in places other than china, heck it would be at a lower cost with lower standards for the amenities and working longer hours.

yep, check it out...a "dream job" come true..

They help make iPhone, but here's where they stayed: Inside Foxconn Chennai offsite dorm room

American tech giant Apple has placed its iPhone contract manufacturer Foxconn’s Chennai unit on probation, over cleanliness and hygiene issues at their staff dormitory and dining areas. WION visited one such dormitory where the women staff had been staying. During the visit, it was found that...

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1476599202436157441

in fact there were reports of labor shortages in the last few years.
and my point stands, like it or not, the us cannot compete in most manufacturing,

Bejingwalker said the work is so easy even girls do it.
So moving it somewhere else should be no big deal..hey rember it isn't about money...look how well the above employees live in the company dormitories!! They may even get A/C too in a few years..if enough people complain loudly!

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

It is not just the salary that needs to be looked at but what they can buy with that salary too. If the average salary is ￥15070/month ( $2,155 USD ) the Chinese worker can have the same food, apartment and quality of living as a 410/per month US worker then the salaries are "equivalent". If not then the difference should be noted.

Those numbers are not what this article mentions

17 Jan, 2022

Omicron puts hiring pressure on world’s biggest iPhone plant

The approaching Lunar New Year holiday and a surge in local Covid-19 cases have created new recruitment challenges at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory.

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The world’s largest iPhone factory is offering former workers extra cash to return to its production line, as a local Omicron Covid-19 outbreak disrupts travel to the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou.
According to a job posting by the Zhengzhou campus of Foxconn Technology Group, the biggest assembler of Apple handsets, the Taiwan company’s iPhone component production unit known as innovative Product Enclosure Business Group (iPEBG) is giving returning workers a signing bonus of 9,500 yuan (US$1,470), in addition to a monthly income of 6,865 yuan.

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1 Chinese Yuan equals 0.14 United States Dollar

6865*0.14=$961

 

[beijingwalker]

It is impossible for a US company to get thousands of employees to live in a company dorm and have them available to work with the snap of a finger. It was easy back in 1906 when people were desperately poor and easily exploitable but it isn't going to be possible today.

I don't understand why you think this is any different in 2022 than when this scenario was talked about in 2012.

Lol , you can't provide dorms and jobs, but you can provide campsites in all cities

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Lol , you can't provide dorms and jobs, but you can provide campsites in all cities

Again you perpetually keep misunderstanding the meaning of the words I write. This has nothing to do with the availability of housing. They could have 100,000 empty free hotel rooms right next to the manufacturing plant and that would not guarantee thousands of people would sign up and basically live there...unless the people they intended on hiring are those people you pictured above...however I'm quite sure most of them would not make it past the screening process.

I think one issue you simply don't understand is that we are not a transient society where a noticeable portion of the population works and lives very far from home and returns back every weekend/month/year or so.