Quote Originally Posted by Assertn View Post
Obama raised the question about bringing factory jobs back to the US to Steve Jobs, and his response is that it will never come back. Not only is it cheaper to have the factories overseas, the employees at those factories tend to be much more efficient as well. One of the recent generation iPhones needed to have all their screens replaced 3 weeks before the public release, and the new screens were shipped to the factories, workers were brought in that night from the dormitories near the factories, and the whole system to implement the new screens were operational within a day or so.

There's a lot of crazy work ethic out there.
They have "great work ethic" because these facilities are perhaps one step removed from a slave labor operation or a prison farm.