Here's What...

 I have discussed the use of NLP in various publications. In recent years I noticed that print publications had been using "command" language in order to manipulate their readers. Usually it's in the form "here's what" or "here's how". This prompt conditions the  mind to accept "programming". The conscious person is aware of it and will reject the programming while those unaware will accept the programming. That is the conscious person will filter what comes next because they consciously recognize the prompt and their conscious mind can run "interference".

I have lived long enough that I can remember that there was a time when such "here's how..." headlines were not common at all. I was not mistaken:

Notice that huge uptick in the late 80s that then ramped up dramatically through the 2000s and thus far peaked in 2020. We know that 2020 was when we experienced perhaps the most blatant amounts of propaganda and programming ever known in the US and around the world. What is interesting is the delay in British English usage.

While British English saw an increase it decreased and then exploded in use .

Here's another example. Another direct command:

 For some reason after 2000, publishers really felt that people should be angry.

Oh and for some reason, Americans are talking about Nazis at a rate nearing that of when actual Nazis were running around in the 1940s.

Pretty sure these are all coincidental.

So How Did It Get That Way

 So Apple CEO Tim Cook made comments about why Apple is so heavily invested in China. Now we know that China represents a huge market so that in of itself is a reason. But the interesting thing about his commentary is how his observations are completely disconnected from history. 

"Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed common misconceptions surrounding the tech giant's decision to manufacture in China, offering insight into the real reasons behind the company's reliance on the country, in a throwback interview that has recently gone viral again."

"Common misconception". This is the setup.

" "The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor costs. I'm not sure what part of China they go to, but the truth is China stopped being the low labor costs country many years ago," Tim Cook stated,"

So in this comment he admits that the reason businesses went to China in the first place was low labour costs. So it's not so much a "misconception" as it is possibly outdated information. 

"Cook highlighted the unparalleled concentration of skilled labour in China as the primary reason for Apple's manufacturing presence there. He elaborated on the advanced tooling and precision required to produce Apple's products, noting that China's vocational expertise in these areas is unmatched globally."

Say Mr. Cook. How did China get such a concentration of skilled labour? How did they get such expertise in "advanced tooling"? How did they get such an "unmatched" vocational expertise?

These terms used to refer to US workers and US industry. 

What happened is that businesses went to China for low labour costs which undercut the domestic US labour market and decimated cities across the US. The transfer of production to China enabled them to gain the upper hand on manufacturing while also having lower labour costs (and environmental regulations, VERY important).  

Once all this manufacturing expertise was exported, China then could produce employees with the necessary skills because there were jobs to be had. Conversely, as the manufacturing left the US, the demand for the expertise dropped. Why supply where there is no or little demand. This spirals out till you get the following:

""The tooling skill is very deep here. In the US, you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I'm not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields.""

Well, first you don't need multiple football fields worth of tooling engineers. Secondly, China's population dwarfs the US population so yeah. But the real point here is that of course you'd have more tooling engineers in China, that's where the tooling jobs went. That "great sucking sound" Ross Perot talked about with NAFTA didn't just apply to Mexico and Canada.

So essentially Cook is telling us that they set up China to succeed while killing the US manufacturing and US labour can suck it and buy an iPad and be glad they don't get censored.