Samsung should be able to cover the tab in the interim if they really wanted to build here
That's the whole point. Samsung and TSMC never wanted to build American plants due to their history of stealing IPs, but the US government strong-armed them into building them. The subsidies were meant to smooth things over but now it's not being doled out.
To continue answering your question, most core vassals such as Canada, Western Europe, Japan, etc. have better infrastructure and social security than the USA. There are many reasons for this phenomena, such as deindustrialization, but I will focus on one topic - deurbanization.Less effort is required to establish infrastructure with a concentration of population. For an easy thought experiment, it is takes less materials and labor to build a water pipe to an apartment complex that house 10,000 people than to a housing complex that has an equivalent number of people in it. For the apartment complex, you can build one bus stop. For the housing complex, you have to build 50. America is the only country in the world that deurbanized largely due to racism. If you don't want to live next to black, Jewish, and Irish people, you have to move away from the city. As a result, the cost of building infrastructure to serve 80% of the population is much greater than that of other advanced economies.
When we say puppet, it means that the country in question has to let Americans have their military near major population centers, open up their economy for American firms to buy, never oppose American foreign policy, don't grow powerful enough to challenge the US, etc.
It doesn't mean that a CIA agent is telling their PM exactly where to build a railway. They have the freedom to act within the boundaries set by the US. Thet get punished only when Japan steps out of the line like when they traded with the USSR.
We use the word puppet to derogate dogs of the empire but it'd be more accurate to say vassal or protectorate.
What do you mean? Declarations such as "Health Canada recognizes the importance of meaningful engagement and
ongoing dialogue with Indigenous peoples to support culturally safe implementation of MAID." and "incarcerated persons should have the same access to healthcare, including MAID, as those living in the community" are completely normal and not at all alarming coming from the parliament.I'm morbidly curious as to how far Canada will push euthanasia as a total percentage of all deaths. 10%? 20%? 30? I think 10% will be easily surpassed considering the rising trend and the aggressive expansionary plans of the Canadian government. I don't like making Nazi comparison since it's overdone, but the whole document reads like a Nazi committee note coated in inclusive language.The entire document is just talking about how to expand and expedite the process so that physically disabled people, mentally disabled people, LGBTQ, ill children, indigenous people, people with dementia, impoverished people, and incarcerated individuals (all specifically mentioned in the document) have quick access to MAID. For example, allowing people to pre-sign their deaths before dementia since they might have trouble consenting after they have dementia.The list looks pretty familiar except Jewish people and communists aren't mentioned yet.
“Every car you start driving with electricity, you’re not driving with oil,” said Robert Brecha, a professor of sustainability at the University of Dayton in Ohio
The journalist has to have a personal grudge against him. That d'oh quotation makes him seem dumber than my dog.
What do you mean public protest is illegal. Public protests against the zero-covid policy forced the government to ease up on restrictions. I don't think a single person was sentenced for that tantrum yet somehow China's prohibiting protests?
Their entire economy is built on the backs of people who are paid pennies per hour.
Yeah Chinese laborers were paid pennies per hour by mostly Western capitalists (and increasingly internal Chinese capitalists). How is that the government's fault? Chinese law mandates minimum wage increases so they are trying to do something about it and mostly succeeding.
I don't know why I bothered to even respond. You're literally a CCP bot who makes these weird allegations against the CCP to make anti-China people look crazy. Be gone from lemmy and make your 50 cents somewhere else. I banish you.
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Edit: Where are all the haters and doubters now? Never, ever underestimate my banishment magic again. It was specifically designed to counter CCP energy back in the 12th century by my landowning ancestors.
It's simple really. Latin Americans are taught that they are part of the West and feel Western.
Europeans say lol no.
To add on a little bit further, the definition doesn't come first as in the case of North America for example. The definition of Western is made post-hoc to describe an emotion and sense of belonging. Europeans feel it among each other and don't feel it towards Latin Americans. Latin Americans feel it towards each other and towards Europeans.
There can be no objective criteria to judge the answer, so there is no objective answer.
As an adjacent narrative, I can and will claim that Japan is Western and there is nothing you can do to disprove it.
Yeah I feel like a medieval serf hearing about how the baron's firstborn succeeded in opening up a new mine. Great for the baron and his coffers, but I'm probably getting sent to the mines.That's how I feel when I hear "good" economic news these days.
Perceptions are worse than 2008-2011 but the economy's doing better than ever somehow. The economy has now become completely decoupled from the average person's experience.
I agree on certain points and disagree on others.Yes, China's economy's not doing well, and they are spending less on BRI. Thankfully DFC is not actually picking up the slack and eating China's lunch due to structural reasons, but Chinese influence is lesser than before. This is only heightened by China's refusal to apply real pressure or voice for geopolitically hot topics such as the wars in Donbass and Gaza. I can't blame them being passive as there will be a harsh reaction if they do act. I fundamentally disagree on American economic indicators. Labor participation rate still hasn't reached pre-pandemic levels although it is rising. The American economy is definitely generating more dollars, but that is different from livability. Surveys reveal that Americans are feeling financially insecure on a personal level. Cost of essential goods such as food, transportation (cars), and housing (rent or mortgage) has outpaced wage increases for all but the top 1%. Even those who are making over $100,000 a year are feeling the pressure. I do admit that energy/fuel prices have gone down a lot which is positive.The real workhorses of the American empire - Japan, S. Korea and Germany - are being hollowed out heavily, and that will diminish American power. When truly parasitic states such as Spain and Australia suffer, it doesn't affect America much. It's a different matter when it comes to technological and industrial powerhouses as they enable America to continue its lead over core technologies and its processes.My view of the world is that it's not zero-sum in most respects. China's doing bad, but so are America and her allies. The world is simply in a degenerative state at the moment.
I didn't consider the incompetence angle since I know little about the actual situation there. On paper, it looked like Poland was going to have a super army, a lot of debt, and little else. That's a volatile mix but ineffective bureaucracy saves the day this time.
Is there significant dissent towards the absurd level of militarization that Poland is proposing, or do the people agree? From the numbers I'm reading, it looks like Poland is looking to surpass rest of the EU combined in firepower. Are neighboring countries okay with it?
That's the whole point. Samsung and TSMC never wanted to build American plants due to their history of stealing IPs, but the US government strong-armed them into building them. The subsidies were meant to smooth things over but now it's not being doled out.