This the final paragraph of Mark Gurman’s Arpril 12 article in Bloomberg.com
“Apple and other companies have been stressing to the Trump administration that — while they are willing to increase investment in the US — there’s little benefit in moving final assembly to the country. Instead, they have argued, the US should be focusing on bringing back higher-value jobs and encouraging investment in things like semiconductor production.”
The problem with focusing on higher-value jobs is that this does not play to the MAGA base. Higher-value jobs require education, training, science and engineering which is abhorrent to the MAGA base. As Vivek Ramaswamy put it, in his WSJ op-ed in December too many Americans, ie MAGA, just want to be cheerleaders or jocks rather than put in the hard work to be productive with today’s advance technology and job market.