Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com
This is a phenomenal article to read the whole way through.
“Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8,700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000 assembly-line workers eventually involved in manufacturing iPhones. The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States. In China, it took 15 days.”
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bananacasts reblogged this from tbridge and added:
You could say this about many, if not most, technology jobs in this country. Ouch.
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