I found a way to get around tariffs that will raise the price of audio equipment.

Oh I thought of a way to make this more palatable. The folks working at these subcontractors and fabs (at least in mainland China) often have come from absolute subsistence existence... I have been in the marginal areas where new plants have opened and no one weighs more than 100 pounds... folks wasting away, just skin and bones, that now have hope. Over time as these plants are established the wages slowly rise and they become more prosperous. They can eat well and buy clothing. This has been the wave starting on the very West of China and slowly sweeping East. 

OK, I am sorry. I wanted to avoid commenting. But I have to.

I worked for decades in high tech manufacturing on mainland China, Japan, Europe and Mexico. Do you folks actually know how terrible and low paying those jobs are? I have been to contract manufactures that employ hundreds of thousands of workers hunched over tiny workstations, putting together phones, and TVs. I have been in dozens of wafer fabs all over the world. After an hour in a bunny suit, sweating like a pig... I had no desire to stay in one... or on a testing facility.

If the point is to give folks the experience that will make them want to go back to school and get a higher level job... then that may work.

However, my experience is that it does not work. I spent a year of high school in town in Pennsylvania where all the folks worked for Westinghouse. They were paid OK. The work was horrible and repetitive. Overall alcoholism was rampant, wife beating, a standard practice. The kids would drink in high school, get a girl pregnant, quit high school, have the kid... and get drunk and beat their wives... repeat. Yeah, the great old days.

Anyway, these are my experiences.