[citation][nom]burnley14[/nom]There are 300,000 people working at this factory? Only in China I guess . . .[/citation]
No shiiii...
t. 300,000 employees for one company in one country would be unheard of anywhere else in the world (except maybe India.) To anyone who thinks these jobs were "lost" in the US: they never existed here at any time in the country's history. They exist because laborers earn a tiny fraction of even the average Chinese wage, which is itself very low. You can hire 3 professionals in China for the cost of one in the US; at this exchange rate it's still profitable to have some work done in the US. When you can hire 20 or 30 factory workers for what one worker in the US would demand for the privilege of showing up every day and doing their job competently without stealing, slacking off, or otherwise running costs up, it's not even worth thinking about employing them in the US.
If you want to get an idea of what sort of stuff goes on in China and other places, you need to watch "Manufactured Landscapes", a documentary by Edward Burtynsky. It's *extremely* eye opening if you are interested at all in what the global consumer goods market looks like from the supply side.