https://www.reuters.com/article/us-foxconn-wisconsin-exclusi...
He said the company was still evaluating options for Wisconsin, but cited the steep cost of making advanced TV screens in the United States, where labor expenses are comparatively high.
“In terms of TV, we have no place in the U.S.,” he said in an interview. “We can’t compete.”
Foxconn has factories in Mexico, Chennai, Malaysia etc. which produce a significant amount of devices but I doubt a factory in US will take off. This article from 2012 about the Steve Jobs "These jobs are not coming back" remark is probably still true: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-an...
It's more plausible that any company will give the more acceptable, easily digestible explanation, rather than the real one.
But really it's the politicians who won, first by banging their chests for all the investments and jobs they created, now for getting an easy out. They can't be blamed for not seeing through any ploy because they can argue Foxconn obviously had good intentions sabotaged by "a misunderstanding" that couldn't have been caught.
It's very unlikely (by that I mean close to impossible) that Foxconn just "blundered", went through many rounds of negotiations, and started building, while genuinely not being aware that the US labor market is different from the Chinese one.
Large companies are unlikely to ever tell the truth about their motivations, but they're even less likely to when they were doing something manipulative and dishonest, as Foxconn was here.
They weren't some naive tiny company.
My personal impression is, that it got a lot worse since Covid, which I attribute to more people doing home office and/or having more free time. Any discussion forum that grows gets worse.
But both my impressions and the 2nd part might be wrong.
Huh! I hadn’t thought about it in such stark terms before, and I’d like to disagree, but there may be something in that.
Is that an original thought, or did you get it from somewhere? It sounds like something that should be an eponymous law.
It’s very visible on Reddit. Large subreddits have either very strict moderation, or they are low quality (I’m excepting picture subs here because they work differently)
I have observed that any comments criticizing anyone, regardless of wether they are justified or not seem to be recieved poorly on modern forums.
I believe this is due to an ongoing effort to make forums safe spaces, somehow honest critical thinking is no longer accepted in the current environment. Right or wrong, it is what it is.
So if You are really concerned with the fake points You are accumulating then just tow the line, get with the woke SJW movement or submit articles of interest to balance out the backlash from the mob....I probably better start looking for a good article :P