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>How come Americans can't make those electronics to a high standard then?
America can, the thing is that the US is built more around creating the concepts of these devices and then contract out the labor to other countries to use said concepts for people to buy in America. Many of the things done in-house are done because they're a necessity such as prototyping, agriculture, getting basic mineral resources, and processing basic resources or agriculture.

It's why trying to get certain jobs back in America is retarded because it means you now downgrade your workforce into labor-focused industries rather than higher-quality-focused industries. There is no reason to bring factory jobs back to America outside of highly advanced things like chip fabrication because it's entirely unnecessary provided it's not actively used for something important like medical, agricultural, or military basics. There's no reason to bring back things like making shoes, shirts, or random plastic doodads because the jobs pay terribly. The prices will never be lower than China can do it because of their willingness to pay people pennies a month.

You know when we had people getting deported and disingenuous people were saying "Well who will do the shit jobs now?". That's exactly it. People in America do not want the "shit jobs" or low paying jobs and expect said low paying jobs to keep up with the economy of better paying jobs because the economy itself is so far beyond needing to manufacture the vast majority of what places like China or Vietnam are. It's why the government pushing to bring back factories to certain areas, get coal mines running again, or get jobs that died for a reason back to America are super short-sighted and miss the forest for the trees. Appealing a small town of 500 people who mine coal for $7.50 is painful for said small town, but benefits hundreds of thousands of people with new high-tech jobs and advances the salaries of the people at those low-end jobs.

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What went so wrong with Japanese electronics and technologies?
20 years ago, companies like Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi, Sharp, Sanyo, Casio,…