Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoSo many issues here. I’m sorry but you deeply misunderstand a lot of things about chip manufacturing.
These really, really, really are not laborers. They have nothing to do with labor. These engineers are effectively the same level of cutting edge as the scientists the US picked up after WW2. They are literally national resources - valuable pieces on the international game board.
No, they don’t get deported to economic rivals. Ever. They are not cheap labor. They are assets in the industrial military complex.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If we treated MIC line-item assets well, Lockheed wouldn’t be constantly battling their workers’ union. And these people brought in from Taiwan will enjoy almost none of the same protections, including no fucking way they’d be allowed to unionize.
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
… You really do not understand the nature of the game that’s being played here, and that’s okay. Feel free to keep thinking of world-class scientists as nothing more than indentured servants. Again, extremely xenophobic to dismiss their intelligence and personal volition, as if they’re just slaves waiting for america to import them.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I understand that’s how it should work. You don’t seem to understand how things actually work in a reality run by capitalists.
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Lol again, they’re not labor. They don’t have anything to do with the traditional capitalist-labor relationships. I am well aware of the reality you describe and I can still tell you, it doesn’t apply here. Cutting edge chipmakers are the golden goose of the digital age. For best reference, see anything about the US’ extreme efforts in collecting rocket scientists after world war 2. Capitalists know a golden goose when they see one.