>>>no way if you allude to more than adding the finishing touches - MotoX being built in the US still kept most of the price of HW generated outside as imported pieces were legoed together here and customer could decide on wood or not.
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>Both the UK and US once had enormous manufacturing sectors providing huge employment to blue collar workers. Take the train North to Sheffield and review the once-vibrant factories decaying along the tracks. Check out downtown Detroit. If this was inevitable, what provision was make for those who lost the work? They didn't cause it and it's not their fault that everything is cheaper in the Third World.
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It is in a roundabout way - the risen level of economy is able to feed more parasites - from asylants for economic reasons to bureocrats down the alphabet.

>More to the point: as increasing wealth lifts third world nations towards the first world, costs will rise and the benefits of outsourcing will diminish. In the end there will be wealthy countries with all the manufacturing capability that are not us. If they can establish monopoly on cost grounds, it will be even worse- though less so for countries like Germany and Japan that seem able to maintain at least some manufacturing capacity despite being high wage economies.
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>>>Apple did not pay dividends...
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>Sure it did. Not huge as a %, but share prices rose after the huge buy-back and investors enjoy the untaxed capital gain on retained shares even more than the dividend. Both would be under threat if the cost of production rose to pre-outsourcing norms.
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>>>Which countries have you picked as alternate nest sites and how many % have you spread ?
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>LOL, you tell me! ;-)

Well, the asiatic region is woefully underdeveloped - whereas I stay out of middle east by choice. Even in english spoken k-sporting islands (kangoroos, kiwi) there is no beachhead...