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It won’t happen. The supply chain is far too complex. Not to mention that the labor market in the US is not willing to do a lot of the work that you see in China and isn’t large enough even if there were enough willing people.

And then you have the rare earth minerals that aren’t available here.



Work will be increasingly done by robots.

Which raw earth materials could be a show stopper for the US?


That was a typo above (since edited). I meant rare earth materials.

And why hasnt that happen yet instead of Foxconn employing 770K people?

These are the raw materials used by the iPhone

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/the-metals-inside-your-ipho...


    why hasnt that happen yet
Because the past is not the future.




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