bala1234

JP234 said:

Many may approve the migration to Indian suppliers for Apple products. I see it as just moving from a country that represents challenges to American security, to another country which at some point in the future will represent the same challenges.

In this unending search for the cheapest foreign labor, all global corporations are merely putting off the day of reckoning. Does anyone remember the 1980's, when Japan was in the position America faces now? They couldn't afford their own labor, so they outsourced first to South Korea, and by doing so, raised the standard of living there to the point Japan could no longer afford Korean labor. China was the obvious next stop, of course. For a good indicator of how well this policy will work for us, take a look at Japan's economy. Mired in a decades long recession, aging and declining population, unaffordable housing (multigenerational mortgages are commonplace).

How long before China and India's middle class get tired of making things they can't afford, and demand better wages and living conditions? Well, I suppose Africa is next. Rinse and repeat. Until we realize that subsidizing our lifestyles with cheap foreign labor is unsustainable long term, and reinvigorate our own manufacturing infrastructure, we'll continue lurching from one impoverished supplier to another, and encountering the same supply chain interruptions we see today. Sure, we'd have to start living within our means. which means we may no longer spend as much on goods and services we can live without, and living with what we can afford from high quality goods and services provided by living wage workers located in our own country.

longfang said:

Oh well, here’s hoping the rest of Meta is let go too.