Patrick McGee

But I wouldn't say like the moment like this week is actually all that big.

There's no drama here.

Nothing has really happened.

Yeah, it's going to be the drama is like, you know, like when Trump became president for the first time and then like people would sort of declare six months in like today he became president because he'd like bombed the country or something like that.

We're going to have a Ternus moment, and that will be sort of the answer to your question.

But, you know, he's not in the role yet.

It starts in September.

And even there, you know, Tim Cook's going to be doing some handholding.

So, you know, I don't know when he's going to be tested, but it certainly hasn't happened yet.

So I don't want to sort of draw too much meaning of this particular week.

But a new CEO at the world's most iconic company, you know, worth $4 trillion, that's clearly a big moment.

Es gibt keinen Ort auf der Welt, wo Apple in dieser Qualität, dieser Menge und zu diesem Preis produzieren könnte.

Wer bei Foxconn eine Zwölf-Stunden-Schicht arbeitet, und das ist üblich, darf nicht reden.

Lachen wird bestraft.

Monoton Routine, Stunde um Stunde, mit nur kurzen Pausen.

Seit 2008 hat Apple dort 30 Millionen Menschen ausgebildet.

Das ist mehr als alle Arbeitskräfte von Kalifornien zusammen.

Overcapacity is seen as a problem from a Western lens, but through China's lens, this is just something where by producing more than they need and then exporting it at cutthroat prices or even losing money in certain respects, I mean, they're just de-industrializing other nations.

And that's not good for sort of capitalism in the profit sense.

But if you're using this as industrial statecraft, if not war, profit is not the goal.