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Man I can’t wait for the Netflix movie about this. What should the title be?

• willis936 6y ago
  Faux con?
  • AaronFriel 6y ago
    It was a real con, I think.
    • Jon_Lowtek 6y ago
      I am not sure about that, it sound like they lost money. Who is the con artist who lined their own pocket in this story? Is this about tariffs?
      • AaronFriel 6y ago
        Had the state of Wisconsin not wised up last minute and begun a legal battle over the billions in subsidies Foxconn would receive, then they would have done quite nicely. Fortunately the political pressure mounted as the plant didn't materialize as promised.
        • Jon_Lowtek 6y ago
          from what i known of the contracts foxconn would need to return the subsidies if they fail the even higher target numbers in the next years, and they don't just get the money, it is in escrow for years, and those multi-billion sums are figures calculated against decades ... i mean i know of Trumps pump&dump deals and everyone wants this whole thing to match some simple scam with foxcon on the evil side, but this doesn't look like the corporation is benefiting at all from failure. That's why i asked if this is a tariffs thing, if they get benefits on some other track, because it looks like they are loosing big for even trying to invest in the USA.
  • readams 6y ago
    Foxconnfidence Game
  • deleted 6y ago
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• hobby-coder-guy 6y ago
  Corporate Welfare Queens of Wisconsin
• xwdv 6y ago
  Foxconned, duh.
  • sjg007 6y ago
    Nice. I was thinking Outfoxed 2.0 but I like Foxconned.
  • dylan604 6y ago
    Wasn't this whole thing being dropped until a certain head of state got involved to convince the deal to continue? I would be very interested in what was offered to keep Foxconn from walking away.
• unnouinceput 6y ago
  "League of Legends" by Foxxcon
• gregd 6y ago
  Outfoxed.
• wishconsinconn 6y ago
  "Fox in the cheesehouse"? While you wait, American Factory is a pretty good documentary about a Chinese auto glass manufacturer trying to set up a stateside plant in an area that aggressively courted them.
  • timidiceball 6y ago
    I thoroughly enjoyed American Factory's take! It presented many aspects of such a venture without taking too strong of a narrative one way or the other. Petty politics big and small, cultural mismatch, the rich getting richer, union busting. But also the very real attempts at bridging the culture gap and the stories of some imported foreigner workers who develop a serious fondness for life in America.
  • ashtonkem 6y ago
    With the minor difference being that the glass factory actually makes things.
  • pm 6y ago
    Fox "con" surely.
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• maxerickson 6y ago
  Scott Walker and the $3,000,0000,000 Sheet of Paper. https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/handwritten-agreement-secured-3b-deal-with-foxconn/article_343cfd24-49f1-5e03-83c5-7d47bc340587.html https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/handwri...
• odomojuli 6y ago
  "The Last Graveyard" Hopefully they incorporate poetry by Xu Lizhi: https://libcom.org/blog/xulizhi-foxconn-suicide-poetry https://libcom.org/blog/xulizhi-foxconn-suicide-poetry