US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan
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Could you try doing the same with the 90%? if life’s essentials are so easily paid for I am wondering what you think the rest is going to?
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I don't know about the numbers you present, but absolutely agree that some industries are just worth supporting, from a government perspective. Cannot be reliant on a geopolitical enemy for goods that allow your country to continue to function.
I think Trump losing us allies is a travesty, but there's no guarantee during a global conflict you can get items from said allies.
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1950 wants its tired anti china tropes back
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cuz our workers have benefits and things like rights.
Who is gonna tell this stable genius how US construction actually work?
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For now.
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You saying things like OSHA and fall arrest harnesses and PPE don't affect construction speed in the US at all?
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What rights are these of which you speak?
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Fun fact: Taiwan doesnt want its workers dying or disabled either
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Global foundries has a fab nearby, and all they produce are those chips for the old obsolete cars put out by Ford
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Those with which you don't have record suicide rates at workplace, probably, with workers jumping out of windows, the solution to which was to put grids like in prison. Talking of Foxconn.
I get it, people have it hard everywhere, but some have it harder, and between American and Chinese workers the relation is clear.
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You are correct, but people always want to believe their enemy's enemy is their friend, and if their enemy is ideological, then that enemy's enemy must be their ideological friend, and same with morality. That's never so.
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The difference is that Americans want rights destroyed.
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Yes, and with all that combined twice as expensive and twice longer is kinda fine. Provided it will function.
EDIT: Except if ever TSMC Taiwan foundries' monopoly is no more, this means loss of a very specific kind of shield of Taiwan's de facto independence, which may cause a lot of interesting developments.
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There’s a big cultural difference. Taiwanese workers, like Chinese, Korean, and Japanese workers as well, have a much higher tolerance for long work hours and less pay.
All of these East Asian cultures have long-standing social norms against complaining and refusing to work hard. It’s a collectivist culture of work that puts the success of the company ahead of the individual’s interests. In return, companies tend to be loyal to workers so it’s very common to stay at one company for your whole career.
We westerners used to have similar values back in the 1950s and earlier. That all changed during the counterculture.
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All abstract ideas are good, and those with less assumptions are more abstract, but the problem is - nobody wants purely abstract ideas.
Pretty Victorian conditions in factories producing all those nice things we have, for example, would not be acceptable in USA.
Which means that this abstract idea is somehow mixed and divided with a border with another abstract idea.
Differently in one place and in another.
OK, I'm using a boring and long way to say that some things have to be balanced. Bad labor conditions allow cheaper production, skewing competitive balance. Tariffs or something like that can in theory balance it out back again.
EDIT: And yes, both globalism and American conservatism and what not are only in appearances divided along party lines, in fact they seem to be evenly split. Like with hedge funds, that's what makes your two-party system stable.
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Not everything has to be latest gen CPUs, there will always be a market for 555 timers and ESP32s
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Except these are the empty headed sensors that trigger the check engine light despite the engine running just fine
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"Capitalism breeds innovation"
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I am saying that original commenter is talking out of his.
Also, referencing OSHA here shows that you don't understand how a construction site functions. Sure there is regulations but lax enforcement, extensive usage of suncotnrwctors and less than legal labour makes all of that enforcement merely a theater.
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I live in Korea. How do you define "loyal to workers?"
