Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later

Re:Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one yea... by cosmodisk on Sunday April 12, 2020 @08:38PM (#22852118)

Olympics is a once in a lifetime opportunity for a tiny groups of people in those countries ( contractors, politicians, all sorts of middle men,etc). The country decides to open money tap and everyone goes bananas. There are no long term planning (we'll sort it after the games), everything is built just to show we are better than the country before us and etc.. In most cases it's the ultimate Bentley parked just outside crumbling council estate...

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Re:Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one yea... by bilbo0s on Sunday April 12, 2020 @10:50PM (#22852718)

The Olympics are actually significantly different than the corruption perpetrated by the cavalcade of asshats that were Governor Walker's cronies.

I mean, they actually hold an Olympics. It's not clear to me that anything meaningful will happen out in Mt Pleasant Wi. Not even anything worth the 1 billion we've already spent, and that's forgetting about what we're on the hook for if something does happen. It's put a lot of us in wisconsin in the awkward position of hoping everything there completely fails, so we can get out with just the losses we've already taken.

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Re:Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one yea... by lonelappde on Sunday April 12, 2020 @10:15PM (#22852523)

You make it sound like someone got duped and it isn't pure corruption by the powerful insiders.

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