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It's crazy to invest like this. The cell phone could disappear within ten years, then what would they do with this big plant?
It's not like it is a stable industry that will be here forever, like, frinstance, the mighty Auto Industry.
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Actually a lot of manufacturing is coming back to the US. Except that the work is done by robots/machines in a building where the lights are off. The days of the ole' drunk turn-a-bolt Bob making a middle class wage pulling a lever are never coming back.
I was once involved in the design of a plant to produce electronic components and our concepts ranged from high labor content to a lights-out fully automated line. The customer decided the product life was too short for that and sent the work off to South Africa as a manual operation.
"20 man years technical work down the drain"
I was once involved in the design of a plant to produce electronic components and our concepts ranged from high labor content to a lights-out fully automated line. The customer decided the product life was too short for that and sent the work off to South Africa as a manual operation.
"20 man years technical work down the drain"
That makes a lot of sense. If you look at smartphones and other gadgets they have a pretty short production life. Most likely cheaper to have that assembly line of people soldering stuff rather than constructing a automated fab with each new iteration of the product.
I hope the state's taxpayers realize they are footing the bill for those employees, not the company. However, isn't that nothing but the tech's world's version of Work For Welfare; taxpayers providing 100% of those employees total compensation? Although I'm a bit surprised the citizens of Wisconsin haven't figured this out yet. But, it may just be another Carrier style smoke-n-mirror scam.
It's crazy to invest like this. The cell phone could disappear within ten years, then what would they do with this big plant?
It's not like it is a stable industry that will be here forever, like, frinstance, the mighty Auto Industry.
Oh, wait, nevermind.
Back to our regularly scheduled podcast.
It's a good thing Foxconn is NOT building a cell phone factory in Wisconsin.
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