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The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America
Lutnik, 6 April, 2025.

В нулевую годовщину Дня Освобождения Трамп объявил о своих «взаимных тарифах», пообещав, что они will «stay in place». Министр торговли, Говард Лютник, превозносил это гениальное решение, сказав, что те вернут производство в США. В частности, глазастые и мелкомотористые американцы будут собирать свои Айфоны отвертками самостоятельно.

Вот пример из недавнего прошлого, который показывает, что с Китаем бесполезно конкурировать на поприще отверток. Apple в 2000 году передал свои заказы на производство компьютеров iMac тайваньской компании Foxconn, которая в свою очередь развернула производственные площадки в Лунхуа́ в Шэньчжэне (провинция Гуандун в КНР). Как и LG (изначальный партнер Apple в Азии) по этого, Foxconn пытался создать производственную сеть на трех континентах. Для этого Foxconn приобрел площадки в Чехии и США (Калифорния). В 2009 «два континента» были закрыты – осталась только КНР. Цитата:

In Europe, Foxconn executive Jim Chang found a Soviet-era electronics site in Pardubice, a city of 100,000 people sixty miles east of Prague. The site had previously been run by a state-owned company called Tesla, whose specialty was radar systems and whose biggest client had been the government of Iran. The site had an eerie fell to it, like it had been hit by a neutron bomb. Forklifts stood motionless on the floor and cups of tea, their contents long gone cold, had been left on the tables. In May 2000, Foxconn was a able to buy the plant for just 102 million CSK (2.9 million Euros), a fire-sale price because it was bringing in jobs. Foxconn also won from the government a ten-year tax holiday…. More than 300 people were hired to run multiple assembly lines, and Foxconn established a giant molding site for the plastic enclosures. … In California, Apply found Foxconn an old Compaq service center in Fullerton, twenty-five miles southeast of Los Angeles…. Later, in 2004, Apple laid off 235 workers in Sacramento, closed its plant there, and shifted all production to the new Foxconn site.
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…producing hardware in China was cheaper, more efficient, and less subject to media scrutiny. In China, assembly got done at incredible speed and with few complaints. Workers did twelve-hour shifts and lived nearby in dorms. At the Czech site, workers put in fewer hours and were represented by a trade union; they protested conditions and spoke to the press. Plans to build dormitories met local criticism and were abandoned. …

At one point, according to an ex-worker named Andrea, workers making Apple products didn’t receive an annual bonus as they were promised, so they threatened a “a strike emergency” just before the ramp-up ahead of Christmas. “Afraid,” the Foxconn managers deposited the bonuses within a week. The incident triggered an audit by Apple, which interviewed workers about their experience. Apple, Andrea said, advocated for better conditions, but “instead Foxconn closed the division within half a year and 330 people were dismissed”. Around the same time, in August 2009 Foxconn shut its Fullerton site, too.

How Foxconn laid the Czech workers off is worth highlighting. Mass dismissals – defined as laying off more that thirty people – need to be reported to the Labor Office, but it was important for Foxconn to avoid scrutiny. “What Foxconn did is they dismissed twenty-nine workers every month”, Andrea said. “Each month, regularly, they fired twenty-nine people”. The threat of a single strike ended all large-scale Apple assembly in Europe.

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Сценка из комедии «The Campaign» (2012) про условия на китайской фабрике:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRivpStByUw

В сериале «Ideal» бандит, подрабатывающий наркодиллером, ПсихоПол угрожает конкуренту отверткой: «И это не какая-то обычная отвертка, а Филипс. Они хуже всех»:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1fFX0w3ZTM