Apple's Tim Cook unintentionally explains how the USA lost its industrial base

The USA wasn't out-competed, it was intentionally maimed by greedy economic charlatans

The economic atrophication of America was a self-fulfilling death spiral, and now Cook is trying to deny he and his ilk started it. They went overseas for the slave/child labor, and now they stay for the vocational expertise after destroying the expertise in the United States. They forgot about the first part, why they went. The extreme cost, bureaucracy, and environmental damage of shipping massive amounts of cargo from factory, to port, to ship, across oceans, to port, to truck, to sales point would be absurd to seriously consider doing in a healthy, long-term, moral economic environment. The reckless globalists never considered that, they were the greedy developers in a horror/disaster film, all about the money, to hell with the People and Nature.