4 ms·
Complying with OSHA ain’t cheap folks, and lol if you think they will absorb those costs. Now you’re incentivized to continue sending your business overseas wh
by wutwutwat 3y ago
Complying with OSHA ain’t cheap folks, and lol if you think they will absorb those costs.
Now you’re incentivized to continue sending your business overseas where taxes, if any, and jobs, continue to foster the growth of another economy, while their fab locations here give them a US legal presence, and all the advantages that having a physical presence affords.
You can also choose to willingly pay more to have your roof replaced if you don’t want to run a free advertisement sign for the roofing company.
Nobody is going to choose to spend more money for the same exact outcome, especially not corporations beholden to shareholders, whose bonus checks are based on profits.
Will these fabs see use? Sure, but I bet only when other fabs are booked or some other fulfillment or capacity issue prevents the Taiwan fabs from being used and the extra cost is the lesser of two evils vs not producing anything at all
- phantomathkg 3y agoNot to mention the salary in Taiwan is cheaper than the US.
- aftbit 3y agoI wonder if we'll see some companies prefer the shorter supply chain over the lower price. Surely there will be enough business cycles for the memories from COVID to fade soon, but perhaps at least some of the military-industrial complex companies will prefer Made in USA if just for politics.
- novia 3y agoThere is actually phrasing in a lot of government funding terms and conditions which obligate the receiver to buy things Made in America. The place I saw it was in the SBA loans that were given out during COVID.
- outside1234 3y agoSo we slap an OSHA and pollution tariff on chips made outside the US.
- jakogut 3y agoIt seems that likely that would further exacerbate the inflation we've been seeing for years now.
- ericmay 3y agoProbably, but the goal isn't consumerism and lowest possible price at all costs.
- chasil 3y agoRemember that these costs are passed down to you.
- ericmay 2y agoGenerally speaking higher costs are probably a good thing. It depends on what you value. If all we cared about were lower costs we would enslave people and make them make things cheaper and we would pollute the environment without any consideration. Conversely we may have more expensive products but be able to avoid or minimize some of these awful things.
- deeviant 3y agoYou seem completely oblivious of the high likelihood of China invading Taiwan in the next 5 years. That will make the covid chip supply disruptions look like a supply chain nirvana in comparison. Any large corporation with more than 2 braincells at the helm is going to want to hedge against Total Supply Annihilation.
- exe34 3y agoI wonder if they'd consider sabotage of these fabs first, to wean us off their chips and then invade further down the line.
- wutwutwat 3y agoIdk but we should probably preemptively strike to ensure no such thing happens, what do you say? /s I hope you aren’t really this paranoid and distrusting of other humans. Man, folks don’t realize how indoctrinated they are into this bullshit. Nobody has done anything, but look at what you’re talking about.
- exe34 3y agoI really am this paranoid, which is why I believe we should have self-sufficiency in fundamental industries like fabs, steel, energy and food production. > Nobody has done anything, but look at what you’re talking about. Isn't that the same bullshit that moved Germany off nuclear and onto Russian gas? I wonder if anything happened because of that....
- exe34 3y agoPs: it's not paranoia if they're out to get you!
- wnevets 3y ago> You seem completely oblivious of the high likelihood of China invading Taiwan in the next 5 years. I get that there is a lot of saber-rattling taking place but that isn't going to happen.