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Lutnick: "We invent the iPhone, which is awesome. Why do we let everyone else build it? Why can't we build it here? ... we need hundreds of thousands of Americans who work in those factories."

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Why can't we build it here? Well dum dum the owner class prefers to pay SLAVE WAGES to people in the 3rd world. So they can pile billions of dollars up. They don't give a damn about workers. Corporations are gonna pay 75k to 150k to high school grads? Is Elon getting this dude high?

They ruined the things the US was good at such as tourism, private post education such as Harvard. China uses trumps drficit interstellar payments to build China and i vest in other countries. Again Trump all cause the deficit tongrow giving tax cuts mostly to billionaires.

They build nets around those Chinese factories to prevent the workers from hurling themselves off the rooftops because they hate the circumstances they're forced to live with. But, yeah, why not us?

And no doubt the Apple team contained some of the smartest people who came to this country on an H1-B then got a green card and then naturalised In other words immigrants helped design the iPhone.

No, he’s not stupid. He is evil. Highly educated people in China come to do menial jobs in the US hoping their children won’t have to work in factories. Lutnick wants to impoverish Americans - he’s just evil.

Because other countries can do it for cheaper? Which leads to cheaper goods for Americans? And nobody really had that much of a problem with this arrangement because Americans kept buying iPhones and only 4% are unemployed?

Why don't they ever ask them for specifics? How much would these factory jobs pay? Where would the factory be built? Are there enough able body Americans in that area to fill each job? Will tax payers subsidize all of it?

Love how he employs his smooth soft soothing tone to try to convince people that working in a sweatshop for $7 plus change an hour is going to make their life so amazing that their future generations will want to follow suit.b

Lutnick is a know-nothing psychopath. He wants to put people back in factories for 16 hrs a day - how the hell does that make America better? Lock him away somewhere & toss the key.

Yo, Lutnick, you Idiot! Are you willing to trade your Cushy "Do Nothing" Job for an 18-hour a day job working as a Laborer in a Factory making pennies on the dollar? These Fascist IGNORAMUSES think Americans are Stupid!... The Maggot population have proven this to be a truth for these illiterates!

BECAUSE….Billionaires don’t want to pay an American worker a decent wage to build their shit so they send it to where they can pay FAR less and pocket the difference. Also called…..GREED. Selling out the American people. Get it now Nutlick?

The real question is how to make it equally expensive for enduser nomatter where things are made. "Fairtrade in a new dimension" and limit what is a fair earning aswell, bonussystems have to go, and wages should be adjusted by hourly wage supplement , not procentages that increase differences

The sollution would maybe have to be a compensation kinda rate, taking to consideration each countrys economy when priceing things? I never said I have det sollution, but we have to find ways to stop multinational firms exploiting us all. Force them to keep money where their earnd is a good start

China has 115 million people employed in their manufacturing base. Europe has 33 million people in their manufacturing base, not to mention Japan, S. Korea, and the dozens of other countries. 210 million jobs in manufacturing. We only have 6.8 million people that are unemployed.

Oh no, his kids would never stoop to our level. They're in line to inherit billions, they have important rich people things to do. These jobs are for people to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and in some states, kids can work till 11 after school. This is seriously their plan.

I remember that time, I was a teen. They were freaked out about the Yippies, SDS, antiwar protests, Black Power movement, Women's Lib, communes, free love, and a lot was happening on campuses. "The youth of America on LSD" Personally I think it started with Rock and Roll. /s

The factory jobs are slave jobs. Even in China the suicide rates are extreme. Many factories have nets on windows to keep people from jumping. Every morning, they line up in military formation and march into positions, and work extended hours. None of this is a modern American standard or dream.

Can some reporter ambush him with a soldering iron and a Nintendo switch and see if he's skilled enough to install a mod chip

Imo We r a global economy some materials and supplies r easier & cheaper to get closer to the source. They also sell their products globally not just locally. These jobs prob won’t be coming back it doesn’t make financial sense for the company they will just raise US prices. These men are dinosaurs.

Tell me you have no clue of how production works without telling me you have no clue of how production works. Fully US built iPhones, from chips over assembly to packaging, would have to cost upward of $10K apiece. If the US gov't wants to profit more from iPhones - FUCKING TAX APPLE YOU MORONS.

The ignorance of this man is truly beyond stunning. Is he aware that suicide nets had to be erected around the Foxconn facility. That steve jobs woke up over 2000 assembly workers at 12 pm from their "barracks" to make changes to original phone. This is his vision for the American industrial class?

I agree. We should all direct our children and grandchildren to work in sweatshops, putting little things into little holes - just like Mr. Lutnick has done with his kids and grandkids! Right? Are you with me America?! "Factories For Kids!"

We don't build things here because shareholders demand the highest corporate earnings possible. This forces companies to pursue the most cost effective manufacturing and product delivery possible.

Exactly, and the real problem is how easy it is to move money from where the goods are manufactured to anywhere these multinational corporations want. We need to think totally different, demand fear taxing where the gadgets are made, and transperancy in all money movements between countries 🤘

Unfortunately that won't happen anytime soon. The trump regime is hell-bent on removing every business regulation it possibly can. Gotta repay those that bought you your job.

I wonder where the millions of workers should come from producing all the stuff the US consumes, not to mention the thousands of factories that would have to be build… Americans tend to underestimate how much they „need“. They'll find out soon enough. Trump Summer 25 will be the greatest crisis.

You mean the factories people were throwing themselves out the windows of? You work there, asshole, if you lice it so much. The rest of us have jobs. And while mine is annoying and I kinda hate it, I do not want to actually kill myself because of it.

'We' invented the iPhone? This noodnick invented nothing! I wonder what criminal he was having dinner with the other night, that wanted to buy 10 Trump Gold Cards? I bet they were Russian Russian Russian! I don't know any sane people who will even vacation here with F47 in office.

Steve Jobs was approached years ago about him sourcing (blood)minerals from places other than the Congo and Jobs said he couldn't because his customers wouldn't pay the additional costs for blood-free minerals. How does Lutnick expect Tim Cook to sell phones that are more expensive due to US wages