Re:U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor ma...
by jollybean on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:15PM
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Good point, but 'manufacturing culture' is also dependent on the prevailing 'regular culture' and also 'conditions'.
Japan, SK and Taiwan are the kinds of places where you could convince a lot of people to 'do this and that for the good of the country' - especially since they were flat on their backs and rebuilding from nothing, at the same time facing existential external powers.
'Post-War' was a quasi-authoritarian national strategy almost as much as the actual war or preparation for it was.
In North America especially, we live in a 'Safe Bubble' we don't really have the sense of existential angst that a place like Korea might have, what with a direct record of thousands of years of war and tumult from any number of neighbours which still exist today.
Even in W. Europe the living memory of that stuff seems rather fargone.
Japan, SK and Taiwan are the kinds of places where you could convince a lot of people to 'do this and that for the good of the country' - especially since they were flat on their backs and rebuilding from nothing, at the same time facing existential external powers.
'Post-War' was a quasi-authoritarian national strategy almost as much as the actual war or preparation for it was.
In North America especially, we live in a 'Safe Bubble' we don't really have the sense of existential angst that a place like Korea might have, what with a direct record of thousands of years of war and tumult from any number of neighbours which still exist today.
Even in W. Europe the living memory of that stuff seems rather fargone.