Manufacturing ecosystems that blend capital types are not easily repatriable.

Evidence

Apple is not manufacturing in China because of cheap, skilled labour but because, since 2007, it has built an entire ecosystem of manufacturing processes which blend human, terrestrial and cloud capital in ways that cannot be emulated on American soil. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 642

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier book_so_far discussion of capital categories (cloud vs terrestrial) and the general de-globalisation/decoupling literature; echoes debates on US-China supply-chain resilience. — connects to: Conventional manufacturers are reduced to fee-paying vassals of cloudalists — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 362
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 642