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Taiwan was not near enough to a communist dictatorship, so of course a government will invest to make chips even closer to an even crazier communist dictatorshi
by toldyouso2022 4y ago
Taiwan was not near enough to a communist dictatorship, so of course a government will invest to make chips even closer to an even crazier communist dictatorship.
And sorry for being political, I guess there are many big brain reasons for this (unironically), but it's funny
- midoridensha 4y agoSo where would you put it exactly? I'm guessing you think it could be put in some rural place in North America where there's no infrastructure and no workforce...
- toldyouso2022 4y agoThere is a city called Busan, that is 350km from North Korea instead of 40km. In case Kim decides to do the stupid, it makes a difference.
- midoridensha 4y agoSeoul is 40km from the border, right? This plant isn't being located in Seoul, despite what the stupid headline says. Anyway, NK has no trouble launching ballistic missiles over Japan at this point, so I'm not sure a few hundred km really makes a big difference.
- cholantesh 4y agoOr alternatively, in a country where doing any kind of labour organizing is liable to get you jailed and where a 70-hour working week is about to be enshrined in law.
- midoridensha 4y agoThey're already walking that one back because younger people are screaming about it.
- NineStarPoint 4y agoSamsung is a South Korean company so...of course they'll build it in South Korea? Not really any reasonable places to build such a project in SK without being close to their local crazy communist dictatorship.
- toldyouso2022 4y agoBusan is 350km away from NK instead 40km, it makes a difference in case of war