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timelets ([personal profile] timelets) wrote2019-01-30 10:07 am
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Manufacturing jobs my foot

(Reuters) — Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/30/foxconn-may-not-build-lcd-panels-at-wisconsin-cites-labor-costs/


It costs at least $1M to create one hitech manufacturing job in the US. Why would you do it for a commodity product?

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