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Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by baybal2 on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:51AM (#30026155)
Any salary in semi space in US is better than $34k-$40k per year for a physics/engineering PhD level worker of moderate experience in Taiwan.

The bigger question is why none of these $34k a year PhDs did move to USA before. I bet, even a floor sweeper at an Intel fab gets more.

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Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by erosenbe0 on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:11PM (#30027510)
Sure USA workers are probably better off but in USA there would be 6k in deduction for Kaiser Healthcare family plan plus up to 3k out of pocket; then there are the additional dental costs; employee likely must own a car (no Taipei transport); deal with potentially higher income, sales, and property tax; much higher child-care cost; schools for children in many areas may be of lower quality or more expensive; the rate of gun crime, gun suicide, and drug use is higher; etc etc
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Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by amelius on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:56AM (#30026243)
> I bet, even a floor sweeper at an Intel fab gets more.

A floor sweeper delivering max 1 particle per m^2.

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Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by pradn on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:17PM (#30026592)
The US could issue special visas for workers in chip fabrication fields, but that'll probably anger our ally Taiwan. There's also top workers in South Korea and Japan, other US allies.
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Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by mensetmanusman on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:51PM (#30029837)
US visa policy is slow, apparently pew found there are 700,000,000 people interested in immigrating to the US, open the gates!
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