This story was originally published in 2016. It’s set in a dystopian future where Foxconn factories for making iPhones have moved to the US. Clearly far-flung sci-fi. It’s great:

Given half a chance Foxconn would replace us all, but then they’d lose all those special benefits the President promised them for coming here in the first place. The ten year exemption on income and sales tax. The exemption on import tariffs for components. The exemptions from minimum wages. The exemption on labor rights. The protection against any form of legal action from employees or inmates. The exemption from environmental protection legislation. And Apple? Well, without me standing here, clipping one Chinese-made component into another Chinese-made component, Apple loses the right for a robot in Shenzhen to laser engrave ‘Made in the USA by the Great American Worker’ into every iPhone casing before they’re shipped over here.

This is the first (of hopefully many) stories published by Brian Merchant on his site. The story behind it is a good one, and so is the story itself.