Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle

Re:Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle by HillaryBriss on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:41PM (#18329413)

OTOH, wouldn't FoxConn just hire any qualified person who applied from anywhere? they're not limited to UW grads or even Wisconsin residents.

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Re:Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle by tfehring on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:39PM (#18330600)

Any qualified person who's willing to move to the Milwaukee area. If you're not from Wisconsin and you're willing to move out of state after graduating, of all the places you could move to, why on earth would you choose Milwaukee? I like Milwaukee, I went to UWM for undergrad, and I might have stuck around after graduating if the job market were better. But if I weren't from Wisconsin (and especially if I were from somewhere with a warmer climate), I don't think I'd even consider it.

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Re:Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle by thrmsforbfast on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:08PM (#18330878)

1. That would destroy the whole point of the plant, which was to create jobs for down-on-their-luck Wisconsites.

2. If you're not from Wisconsin, why would you move to Wisconsin? There's nothing wrong with Milwaukee, BTW. Nice city. But there are dozens of other nice low-CoL cities in the USA, many with nicer weather and many still in the Midwest.

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Re:Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle by jonknee on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:44PM (#18330642)

You can pay people less if they already live in Wisconsin, very few people want to relocate to rural Wisconsin.

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Re:Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle by bytematic on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:09PM (#18329688)

Tax breaks perhaps?

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