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A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
"The army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America."
In the long term, we could and probably will see more tech manufacturing get reshored to the United States for strategic and national security reasons, but in the interim with massive tariffs, there will likely be unfathomable pain that is likely to last years, not weeks or months. Human beings remove the batteries from the vast majority of iPhones that are recycled to prevent fires; the rest of the device is usually run through a shredder and individual metals are sorted out, melted down, and downcycled. Additionally, companies must rebuild domestic supply chains … With an aging population and fewer skilled workers available [in the US], manufacturers need to invest in upskilling their workforce or adopt technologies that reduce reliance on manual labor.”
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