“Free trade” means letting everyone do what they’re best at so that everything is done as well and as cheaply as possible. However this makes no guarantee about any one country’s ability, at the end of the day, to stand alone without dependencies on others for vital goods. In fact if anything it works against that.
I don’t know why Trump talks about globalism as some Democrat thing. It’s his own party that has been driving for free trade since forever.
infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 month ago
Also because we dont have the construction experience of building FAB’s, and we have different building regulation and standards.
25% tariffs on steel also wont make it any cheaper.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also because Taiwan has basically slave labor like China. Also things cost more here cuz our workers have benefits and things like rights.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 month ago
1950 wants its tired anti china tropes back
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What benefits and rights are that supposed to be?
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What rights are these of which you speak?
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s a big cultural difference. Taiwanese workers, like Chinese, Korean, and Japanese workers as well, have a much higher tolerance for long work hours and less pay.
All of these East Asian cultures have long-standing social norms against complaining and refusing to work hard. It’s a collectivist culture of work that puts the success of the company ahead of the individual’s interests. In return, companies tend to be loyal to workers so it’s very common to stay at one company for your whole career.
We westerners used to have similar values back in the 1950s and earlier. That all changed during the counterculture.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You are correct, but people always want to believe their enemy’s enemy is their friend, and if their enemy is ideological, then that enemy’s enemy must be their ideological friend, and same with morality. That’s never so.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
You’re getting downvoted, but I work in the industry (GF, Intel, TI) and have heard horror stories from people who have worked on TSMC and even Samsung sites.
PanArab@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
“Right to work”
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, and with all that combined twice as expensive and twice longer is kinda fine. Provided it will function.