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With a cratering population, who exactly is going to be working at that chip center?
by optimalsolver 4y ago
With a cratering population, who exactly is going to be working at that chip center?
- sgu999 4y agoI think it's already mostly immigrants working in TSMC's Taiwanese foundries. I don't see it being very different in the US either as the wages are unlikely to be much higher than where the chips are currently made in Asia.
- wil421 4y agoNot sure if that will be the case. I’d imagine they would pull from the same pool as auto manufacturers and other “anyone can apply” plant/manufacturing jobs. It looks like a FAB worker makes about $36k. In my state the average UAW yearly income is about the same, in Arizona it’s $46k.[1] Some google searches says a fab worker in Taiwan makes about $17k. [1] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-UAW-Salary-by-State https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-UA...
- sgu999 4y ago> I’d imagine they would pull from the same pool as auto manufacturers and other “anyone can apply” plant/manufacturing jobs. What is this pool? The cost of living in the US is (according to my very lazy Google search) about 4 times as high as in Taiwan on average. From what I understand from afar (I'm in the EU), $36k/year really isn't enough to buy a good quality of life in the US. I don't see anyone but those who have very little bargaining power working in these fabs... My point was that whether it's the US, South Korea or Taiwan, the pool of available workers is probably the same and I suspect the birth rate of the country has very little impact on it.
- kilroy123 4y agoMore and more automation, I would assume.