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But every single device was constructed by a huge team of people.
 

p1: The group of people who make electronics stand together in their work clothes: the person responsible for injection moulding, painting, pick and place, soldering, prototype casting, accelerated life testing, quality inspection and shipping.
 

And more often than not, those teams are overseas. Mostly in China.
 

p2:a graph showing how since 2005, China's share of electronics exports has grown to over $600B/year, dwarfing the exports of USA ($110B) and Japan ($90B) (source: UN Open Data)
 

This includes 85% of Notebook PCs, 80% of toys, 50% of digital cameras, 62% of Li-ion batteries and 80% of mobile phones. Sources: Nikkei Asian Review (2018), Word Economic Forum (2018) and Visual Capitalist (2017).

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