T0@stPerpetrators have targeted houses and cars within these new build communities

TheinsanegamerNAmerican employees expect to be treated like humans and not cattle, something Taiwanese companies have repeatedly failed to understand. We are not bugs, we will not be worked to death.

reminder that FOXCONN, the company with the suicide nets, was also a Taiwanese company.

DragokarThat's why you work with no health insurance, no sick days, or even worse at Gamestop or other Retailers that treat employees as crap..........the american work culture is flawed and only the top % are making a good deal out of it.

DragokarThat's why you work with no health insurance, no sick days, or even worse at Gamestop or other Retailers that treat employees as crap..........the american work culture is flawed and only the top % are making a good deal out of it.

TheinsanegamerNreminder that FOXCONN, the company with the suicide nets, was also a Taiwanese company. FOXCONN also struggled to find people stateside.

S13shakaSays the guy who lives in a country the size of the state of Montana

DragokarThat's why you work with no health insurance, no sick days, or even worse at Gamestop or other Retailers that treat employees as crap..........the american work culture is flawed and only the top % are making a good deal out of it.

AnotherReaderWhat does the size of a country have to do with its quality of life? The USA is enormous; it's a given that most countries would be smaller than it.

Double-ClickRunning a country involves logistics to implement the the political ideologies which drive them. So it has everything to do with it.

TheinsanegamerNAmerican employees expect to be treated like humans and not cattle, something Taiwanese companies have repeatedly failed to understand. We are not bugs, we will not be worked to death.

reminder that FOXCONN, the company with the suicide nets, was also a Taiwanese company. FOXCONN also struggled to find people stateside. Funny that….

LeiesoldatNever understood why TSMC chose Arizona for a fabrication facility that requires copious amounts of water for cooling. They would have been better served to move east of the Mississippi to a state like Kentucky, Tennessee (eastern portion of the state), or Georgia where we have to discharge billions of cubic feet of water each day from all the lakes that have dams.

As somebody who helped build out Intel's FAB 12 and FAB 12E at the Ocotillo campus in the 90's, let me state it's also because the City of Chandler, AZ offered tech companies Free Trade Zone status back then (and still likely now.) No taxes on any sales of items manufactured there and exported out of the US. It's why we also had Intel's massive Chandler campus with FAB 6, Northrup-Grumman, Orbital Sciences, Microchip, and so on there near us.

DenverThe Taiwanese are arguably more efficient. Period.

DenverThe Taiwanese are arguably more efficient. Period.

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AnotherReaderArsTechnica covered this a while back. Intel's historic presence means that there's existing talent, and the risk of natural disasters is low. Still, New York has a trained workforce due to IBM and GlobalFoundries too. Then there's this comment by Voiddancer on that article:

the54thvoidI had to do some Googling. Ireland are top not because of productivity but because of the huge number of multi-nationals there on the tax incentives (the income grossly inflates perceived value of individual work). The actual 'workforce' productivity isn't reflected in this statistic. And if one result is not accurate, yhen the rest are subject to similar doubt.

Regardless, this has little to do with the news piece (of non-tech nonsense).

DenverDo you seriously think that 100 dollars has the same purchasing power in taiwan and the US? I would say that in the US the purchasing power drops to 1/4 or less, houses that are not worth 200-300k USD are sold for millions. Everything is much more expensive.

I was referring to efficiency, from the point of view of salary paid vs result, in the US employees will be paid twice as much to have the same standard of living as Taiwanese employees receiving less.

TheinsanegamerNAmerican employees expect to be treated like humans and not cattle, something Taiwanese companies have repeatedly failed to understand. We are not bugs, we will not be worked to death.

reminder that FOXCONN, the company with the suicide nets, was also a Taiwanese company. FOXCONN also struggled to find people stateside. Funny that….

R-T-BYou didn't read the part where the taiwanese engineers are finding Arizona crime unbearable, did you?

TheEndIsNearOur country sucks no doubt but to treat your employees like they do I might sell my stock because I have a conscience and money is shit.

S13shakaSays the guy who lives in a country the size of the state of Montana

K thanks goodbye.

Double-ClickWithout more detail a lot of this speculative.

Cultural differences? Totally feasible.
Draconian business practices? Ditto.
Less than desirable applicants? Yep definitely that one too.



The wealthiest benefit the most here that is true (and wrong fundamentally).
However we most certainly have healthcare and personal time off; what provider and how much depends on your employer and what they can offer (along w/ Federal+State regulatory).

Vacation time is something we have MUCH less of though overall compared to those in the EU.
Conversely I think the amount of vacation time there is excessive; somewhere in between the two would be good here.

I'll toss you another win on universal child care, it is just insane what that costs in our country.



Running a country involves logistics to implement the the political ideologies which drive them. So it has everything to do with it.

evernessinceLet's be honest 95% of the reason is taxes. If they are saving 10 billion / year in taxes, they can easily pay to relocate people and for any resources they need.

There's a bigger downside to giving a corporation a pass on taxes, in that the people of that state themselves foot the bill for that company. Not just in the upfront subsidies but also the infrastructure cost. Roads, schools, police, if a company isn't paying into those everyone else has to pay more to cover the free loader. All for this company to attract more wealthy residents who will likely drive up housing prices and drive local residents out. All the while both the company and new residents push for even further tax benefits specifically for themselves and further place the burden of taxes on your average joe.

IMO what's been explained in the article seems logical given what's happening / going to happen.



You are conflating something being inaccurate with you disagreeing with how's it's measured. Yes, given the current methodology Ireland is over-represented but I don't see how that suddenly makes the rest of the data irrelevant.

The chart was provided by Our Workd in Data, which is partnered with the worlds biggest Universities: ourworldindata.org/about

This information is used on most websites including wikipedia. I would say there is significant credibility behind it.




Your argument was that Taiwan was more efficient, not that they can stretch their income further. Mind you the chart I linked has nothing to do with income or the purchasing power of said income, it's merely the amount of GDP produced per working hour. It's not the actual amount people take home in the US. The vast majority of the fruits of labor in the US goes increasingly to the 1%, hence why the median wage is a mere 17.02 or barley enough to support just yourself (in most states) with a 40 hour work week.

Just for reference Taiwan has a cost of living index of 54.2 while the US is at 72.4 so it would be inaccurate to say that purchasing power drops to 1/4 or less when it doesn't reach even 1/2 or less. Living in Taiwan on average costs 74% as much as living in the US.