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I bought an iPhone 14 Pro with the thought “this needs to last me a couple of years.” It’s not the color I wanted per se, but my old phone wasn’t working well

I bought an iPhone 14 Pro with the thought “this needs to last me a couple of years.” It’s not the color I wanted per se, but my old phone wasn’t working well for my needs and I figured continued supply chain issues would linger for awhile. It’s only a matter a time before Apple starts making hardware closer to home en masse. Home, of course, being “not just in China.” The era of de-globalization is upon us.

bamboozled 4y ago
Which is scary because as more of this happens, there will be less reason for China to be nice. Once there's no real reason for them to play nice with the west, we're going to see more problems.
- factsarelolz 4y ago
  We need to accept this and start immediately facing it head on. I'm talking a 5 Trillion Dollar investment into manufacturing in the US. Set a goal of 5 years. After that 5 years we cease any and all import from China and countries beholden to them. While extracting and exporting every ounce of oil the US has. The profit made goes into Nuclear and Renewable Energy. Next we Annex Canada and Mexico to further build out US infrastructure. We will dub this the Nation of North America.
  - candiddevmike 4y ago
    Need to stage a false flag attack on a radio station first.
- throwaway98797 4y ago
  they hold a lot of us denominated debt we are cool for awhile
- adolph 4y ago
  Itll take a few years and in the meantime China will age out of feeling frisky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China
  - slaw 4y ago
    China can mandate minimum 3 kids per family, otherwise you are locked out of civilization.
    - jmoak3 4y ago
      So roughly 20 years from now, after taking on a country-wide new baby-boom's worth of problems, they can use the fresh faces to resolve the problems they're facing today. How the one child policy was allowed to happen is a mystery to me - surely someone saw this coming?
    - bamboozled 4y ago
      I read that if they did this today, it wouldn't make a difference, it's too late to recover from now, mathematical impossibility. The majority of their population is beyond the child bearing age so it's downhill from here no matter what policies they put in place, there's going to be a major population crash for them in the next 30 years. Else...I'm sure Xi would've done it already.
      - slaw 4y ago
        there are 180 milion women aged 20-40. On Xi order they can give birth to 180 milion new Chinese citizens in 9 months. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101677/population-distribution-by-detailed-age-group-in-china/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101677/population-distr...
        snovv_crash 4y ago
        Since we're talking about an amoral baby making law, the age bracket 16-36 is more realistic. Doesn't change much in terms of population, but also doesn't explain how it will be enforced. However this is just the beginning. After that, assuming worst case labour practices, you have another 10-15 years of supporting increasingly expensive unproductive citizens before they can even start to pay back the costs on society they incurred by being born. It's a long slow road...
- sekai 4y ago
  > Once there's no real reason for them to play nice with the west, we're going to see more problems. What's new? They're not playing nice since Xi took over.
philliphaydon 4y ago
Apple already makes the hardware closer to home for some parts while others come from everywhere other than China. The iPhone isn’t made in China. It’s assembled in China.
dehrmann 4y ago
> The era of de-globalization is upon us. Somewhat, but a lot is just diversifying away from China.

bamboozled 4y ago

Which is scary because as more of this happens, there will be less reason for China to be nice. Once there's no real reason for them to play nice with the west, we're going to see more problems.

factsarelolz 4y ago
We need to accept this and start immediately facing it head on. I'm talking a 5 Trillion Dollar investment into manufacturing in the US. Set a goal of 5 years. After that 5 years we cease any and all import from China and countries beholden to them. While extracting and exporting every ounce of oil the US has. The profit made goes into Nuclear and Renewable Energy. Next we Annex Canada and Mexico to further build out US infrastructure. We will dub this the Nation of North America.
- candiddevmike 4y ago
  Need to stage a false flag attack on a radio station first.
throwaway98797 4y ago
they hold a lot of us denominated debt we are cool for awhile
adolph 4y ago
Itll take a few years and in the meantime China will age out of feeling frisky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China
- slaw 4y ago
  China can mandate minimum 3 kids per family, otherwise you are locked out of civilization.
  - jmoak3 4y ago
    So roughly 20 years from now, after taking on a country-wide new baby-boom's worth of problems, they can use the fresh faces to resolve the problems they're facing today. How the one child policy was allowed to happen is a mystery to me - surely someone saw this coming?
  - bamboozled 4y ago
    I read that if they did this today, it wouldn't make a difference, it's too late to recover from now, mathematical impossibility. The majority of their population is beyond the child bearing age so it's downhill from here no matter what policies they put in place, there's going to be a major population crash for them in the next 30 years. Else...I'm sure Xi would've done it already.
    - slaw 4y ago
      there are 180 milion women aged 20-40. On Xi order they can give birth to 180 milion new Chinese citizens in 9 months. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101677/population-distribution-by-detailed-age-group-in-china/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101677/population-distr...
      - snovv_crash 4y ago
        Since we're talking about an amoral baby making law, the age bracket 16-36 is more realistic. Doesn't change much in terms of population, but also doesn't explain how it will be enforced. However this is just the beginning. After that, assuming worst case labour practices, you have another 10-15 years of supporting increasingly expensive unproductive citizens before they can even start to pay back the costs on society they incurred by being born. It's a long slow road...
sekai 4y ago
> Once there's no real reason for them to play nice with the west, we're going to see more problems. What's new? They're not playing nice since Xi took over.

philliphaydon 4y ago

Apple already makes the hardware closer to home for some parts while others come from everywhere other than China. The iPhone isn’t made in China. It’s assembled in China.

dehrmann 4y ago

> The era of de-globalization is upon us. Somewhat, but a lot is just diversifying away from China.