r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Sounds about right.

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u/CoyoteChrome 1d ago

They just need to build multiple American factories for 20 million a piece, replace the slave wages of 2 dollars an hour for mind numbing monotonous work that saps the will and hope of the workforce, and do it all in less than two months and you won’t feel a thing!!!

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u/Nigel_Hunter 1d ago

20 million for a factory producing iPhones? No way. Add a zero or two.

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u/Whole_Meet5486 1d ago

And that’s going to be a very shitty factory because someone probably fired the health and safety departments so it keeps blowing up.

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u/Syroice 23h ago

No more health and safety regulations is exactly how you get 20 million dollar factories! Its all part of the plan baby

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u/reddit_4_days 20h ago

New phones will be 3 to 4k in the US in the future...

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u/NoConfusion9490 23h ago

Health and safety departments are illegal now.

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u/Mr_Canard 22h ago

Health and Safety department is DEI somehow

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u/CruxOfTheIssue 20h ago

More work for us!

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u/Anxious_Ad936 1d ago

20mil wouldn't pay for a factory to make the packaging they come in.

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u/aw11sc 23h ago edited 22h ago

Tata recently spent $835 million USD on expanding capacity at a current plant in India; iPhone production, to be specific.

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u/CouldBeBetterOrWorse 1d ago

$200mil wouldn't even get tool-in.

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u/LaurenMille 22h ago

You could throw 20 billion at it and you still wouldn't have it in 2 months.

These processes and especially the foundries behind them take decades to set up.

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u/CoyoteChrome 1d ago

Haha, after doing more research you are absolutely right.

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u/ExpletiveDeletedYou 22h ago

maybe they meant iphone cases

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u/savageotter 21h ago

Billions and years.

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u/Lucky-Hearing4766 18h ago

20 Mil for one machine lmao

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u/PrinterInkDrinker 1d ago

I work in neodymium and dysprosium refining.

Forget money, it takes MINIMUM 8 years to set up a proper system for mining, sorting, processing, refining and C&R. And that’s assuming you’re not behind schedule for even a day.

The US has about 1/10th of the domestic systems needed to refine both.

Let’s hope Americans are cool with waiting 10+ years for prices to drop below 500%

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u/commanderizer- 22h ago

Clearly that's why trump needs a 3rd term1!!!!!1! 8 more years@!

/s.

Fucking fascists.

It's never been about setting up American jobs, as another redditor put it, it's a bunch of junkies who got elected who are ripping out and selling the copper from the walls to sell to get their drug money.

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u/kindasortaish 21h ago

Hey recessions last longer than that so I'll takebthay as a positive

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u/NapTimeFapTime 21h ago

If I’m lucky, I’ll be black bagged by the government and in a Salvadoran prison by then, and I won’t have to worry about increased prices for iPhones.

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u/Schlonzig 1d ago

I remember reading somewhere that a 100% American made iPhone would be around $10,000.

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u/blaawker 23h ago

holy crap, apple is done

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u/LifeIsBizarre 23h ago

The All new Trumpple phone!
It's new! It's $10,000!
It's Mandatory

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u/mtmttuan 1d ago

Believe it or not 2$/hour is higher than typical salary of part time jobs in my country.

And I'm currently having a pretty high paying entry level job, and my salary is about 4$/hour.

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u/BackgroundBat7732 1d ago

What country?

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u/mtmttuan 22h ago

Vietnam, the country was accused of imposing 90% tariff on US goods and hence got 46% back.

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u/Kamilny 22h ago

Hopefully these stupid ass policies don't hurt you guys too much.

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u/PsychoNerd91 21h ago

They'll get prisoners to do it. That whole Project 2025 thing where they put whole categories of people into prison.

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u/TheS4ndm4n 23h ago

I see you were classmates with the pigeon guy.

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u/CoyoteChrome 23h ago

Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?!?

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u/Least-March7906 23h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/bnej 1d ago

Also all the competing products will be more expensive so they'll be able to price them higher without competition, but they'll make the pricing lower anyway because I heard they hate money.

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u/OldTimeyWizard 1d ago

$20 million might get the building put up but you’re not building-out a factory that makes smartphones for that amount.

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u/Airf0rce 1d ago

In the US 20 million might pay the consultants and lobbyists to find a suitable location for the factory and get permits and that’s about it.

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u/FUBARded 23h ago

Fabs to produce the processors used in modern computers and phones cost in the billions and require a large skilled workforce with a very niche training background.

There's a reason the likes of TSMC and other semiconductor giants dominate the market. The financial and human capital barriers to entry any new entrants would need to overcome to match their capabilities are enormous.

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u/Sorry-Water-8530 23h ago

You think people are getting paid 2$ an hour to work in factories in China, India and Bangladesh? Last I talked to someone working in a smartphone factory they earned - Rs 15-20k a month in India - 175 - 240$ per month.

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u/npMOSFET 23h ago

Easily +500million for a proper factory if not more.

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u/widnesmiek 22h ago

Yes - and with the tariffs cutting in very soon then they will need them

Luckily they will all be built by next Wednesday - about 3 p.m. I think

or they better had be otherwise prices in the USA will be going up by quite a lot

and a lot of people will be out of work - and off their health care plan and all that

still - lots of jobs available enforcing and applying these new tariffs

which they currently have no way of doing

but again - that'll be sorted - presumably by next Wednesday

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u/ColumnK 23h ago

It's fine, they'll just do it all with slave labor. Sorry, I mean "prison" labor.

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u/Battosay52 22h ago

And they're rolling back child labor laws too, just in case they can't put enough black and brown people in jail ! yay...