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Do you think we'll have personal computers made in the USA ever again?
Leo Wood
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Lucas Stewart
No.
Levi Rodriguez
only if an American tech company manages to beat chink efficiency with robots
Bentley Young
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Jason Brooks
not unless Trump gets elected.
Hudson Long
Nope. Your man Trump is apparently too dense to realize that he can't change that.
Thomas Bailey
No, he understands that very well. It's his gullible supporters who don't.
Benjamin Bailey
To clarify, there's just no incentive to. Technological development was big in the 50s-70s because at the time it was pretty much a downshoot of the military industrial complex, which is pretty much exempt to outsourcing. It's not the cold war anymore. Other countries have caught up and can do the same shit we can for pennies on the dollar. It makes no sense to manufacture your electronics in the US anymore because ultimately profit is the name of the game, and losing a few million middle class jobs doesn't really mean shit in capitalism because; again, profit is the name of the game.
Even if you're not big on the guy, here's a speech Bernie Sanders gave to chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan in 1998(?) about the issue:
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Sebastian Thomas
Hopefully not.
Americans tend to be untrustworthy when it comes to not spying on you.
Wyatt Ramirez
>tfw based japs tried to save us from this
>tfw america cheated
Josiah Green
you lost that race long ago, cum guzzler
Tyler Perez
Maybe if that prick wasn't invading countries he shouldn't have been invading, he wouldn't have lost his legs in the first place.
Kevin Morgan
>I don't know about comparative advantage
Angel Young
WHY DO YOU HATE THE BRAVE TROOPS????!??!
Landon Peterson
I'm not arguing whether it's wrong or not. Just stating why it happens.
If you owned a business and could hire a team of 20 American engineers or 500 Taiwanese engineers for the same price, you'd be an idiot to go local.
Or even better: Rather than pay a senior developer $150k a year or whatever, you get an H1B who will work practically at gunpoint thanks to the risk of deportation for $35,000 a year.
Charles Brown
Your false dichotomies undermine your arguments
Nathaniel White
Not sure what you're trying to argue here.
Ian Price
It's called the Mac Pro.
Brandon Stewart
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John Morales
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Christopher Flores
If we suddenly have tariffs large enough to have no incentive for importing, or suddenly foreign labor costs too much then yes
Wyatt Perez
Perhaps.
Robotic assembly is really improving.
It's more expensive than hiring a bunch of Chinese workers, but the quality is higher.
Noah Price
DELETE THIS REEE
Joshua Morris
That's true for low skilled jobs.
But when you need higher skills the differences is pay gets smaller, and the differences in quality bigger.
Caleb Thompson
>Other countries have caught up and can do the same shit we can for pennies on the dollar.
Only single party dictatorships, that use slave labour to manufacture those goods.
But mainland China's, India's and Indonesia's days are numbered. Electronics manufacture will return to Europe and maybe even the US.
Michael Murphy
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