How little will an American worker work for, and how hard will they bust their ass? Ask amazon with their crappy warehouses. It's pretty cheap and pretty hard.
Lets say it's $8 an hour, and you have a decent amount of churn. That's not even the problem. The problem is that you have $8 an hour, plus payroll taxes, plus SS, plus unemployment insurance, plus any benefits. So now it is significantly more than $8 an hour. Then you have the increased cost of facility construction, increased cost of regulatory compliance for the manufacturing facility and process. All the money you might save on shipping product to it's largest market evaporates when you now have to ship all the components here as we simply do not have the secondary suppliers to domestically source all the bits. You'd simply lose a TON of profit, so it isn't happening. Blaming the American worker is a bit of a red herring though. Once you step outside of chip manufacturing, our high tech manufacturing infrastructure is nearly nonexistent.
Lets say it's $8 an hour, and you have a decent amount of churn. That's not even the problem. The problem is that you have $8 an hour, plus payroll taxes, plus SS, plus unemployment insurance, plus any benefits. So now it is significantly more than $8 an hour. Then you have the increased cost of facility construction, increased cost of regulatory compliance for the manufacturing facility and process. All the money you might save on shipping product to it's largest market evaporates when you now have to ship all the components here as we simply do not have the secondary suppliers to domestically source all the bits. You'd simply lose a TON of profit, so it isn't happening. Blaming the American worker is a bit of a red herring though. Once you step outside of chip manufacturing, our high tech manufacturing infrastructure is nearly nonexistent.