01-19-2016, 02:12 PM
ztirffritz wrote:
Hahahahahhahahahah!!! That's hysterical. I think FoxCon employs more people than are unemployed in the US. They'd need to import several hundred thousand immigrants to do that. I'm sure Trump would just love that...
edit: As of 2013:
By the numbers: How Foxconn churns out Apple's iPhone 5S
1,000,000: Number of workers Foxconn employs in China
100,000: Number of production lines it runs
300,000: Number of people working exclusively on the iPhone 5S
24 hours, 7 days a week: Foxconn’s iPhone 5S factory runtime
500,000: Daily iPhone 5S output from Foxconn’s Zhengzhou site
Doesn't Foxconn build other things besides Apple iPhones?
Real unemployment (U6) is much greater than 1m people—more like 16m, about 10%:
http://useconomy.about.com/od/suppl1/f/r...t_rate.htm
Some say the Chinese Potemkin economy is on the verge of collapse, in which case US companies that outsource their manufacturing might have to scramble for alternatives.
As for the Trumpster, he is an glib entertainer who will say the first thing that comes into his head—and, often as not, the exact opposite an hour later.
/Mr Lynn