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Sounds like you have no clue about the abuse endured by H1B recipients in this country.
Or you’re just another bad actor trying to adopt the language of the oppressed to defend their exploitation.
H1B recipients are horribly abused, true. But that's because they're used the way capitalism uses everyone it considers replaceable - grind them down and move onto the next. Doesn't apply to - again - the literally best-on-the-planet engineers. They're not coding for Xitter, they can walk at any time and find employment and visas elsewhere.
No, they often can’t. That’s one of the worst abuses imposed upon them.
Engineers from Taiwan that have chip design skills? Yes, they can walk at any time.
You're taking a general case of H1B visa abuse--which is completely valid in broad terms--and applying it to a specialized case where the materials conditions are different.
That seems an expectation formed based on opinion of how things should work, and not in any way a reflection of how US capitalist policy has ever actually worked throughout history.
It's exactly how it works for people with highly specialized skills.
Yes, when they are in conditions that afford them reasonable employment protections. The chipmaker’s visa would make slaves of them. If they quit, they’ll be deported back to China, and I expect charged with treason when they get back.
Why would people from Taiwan be deported to China? Even if the US wanted to punish them, Trump hates China more than anybody else.
With a growing number of ARM and RISC-V manufacturers out there, people with these skills are in high demand. You're completely off base.
The whole point of the chips act is bring chip manufacturing to the US so we’re no longer disputing sovereignty for Taiwan to protect the chip manufacturing industry. If we get to the point that we have imported laborers from Taiwan manufacturing chips in the US, the US will no longer be defending Taiwan the way it is now, and it will be firmly under China’s control.
Any indentured servants here on a chipmaker’s visa will be fully aware that quitting their jobs will likely result in deportation back to China, and all of the legal ramifications they’ll face back at home. This is already an issue with h1b’s, and will be dramatically worse under this new visa with all of the foreign policy issues intertwined.
So many issues here. I'm sorry but you deeply misunderstand a lot of things about chip manufacturing.
These really, really, really are not laborers. They have nothing to do with labor. These engineers are effectively the same level of cutting edge as the scientists the US picked up after WW2. They are literally national resources - valuable pieces on the international game board.
No, they don't get deported to economic rivals. Ever. They are not cheap labor. They are line-item assets in the military-industrial complex.
If we treated MIC line-item assets well, Lockheed wouldn’t be constantly battling their workers’ union. And these people brought in from Taiwan will enjoy almost none of the same protections, including no fucking way they’d be allowed to unionize.
... You really do not understand the nature of the game that's being played here, and that's okay. Feel free to keep thinking of world-class scientists as nothing more than indentured servants. Again, extremely xenophobic to dismiss their intelligence and personal volition, as if they're just slaves waiting for america to import them.
I understand that’s how it should work. You don’t seem to understand how things actually work in a reality run by capitalists.
If society actually worked the way you seem to believe it does, it would be merit based and the richest people would be these world-class scientists. In reality, the richest and most successful people are those who can enslave and exploit those talented people.
You also seem to be accidentally injecting your own xenophobia and racism, because you keep bringing it back to that. As if you believe there’s some eugenics reason that people from Taiwan are talented chipmakers. I assure you, people from the states could perform just as well given the same opportunities and education investments here. They would rather import these people to treat as indentured slaves.
Lol again, they're not labor. They don't have anything to do with the traditional capitalist-labor relationships. I am well aware of the reality you describe and I can still tell you, it doesn't apply here. Cutting edge chipmakers are the golden goose of the digital age. For best reference, see anything about the US' extreme efforts in collecting rocket scientists after world war 2. Capitalists know a golden goose when they see one.
I’m gonna make this real simple for you: If you do not control capital, you are a laborer under capitalists. Yes, that includes white collar engineers and scientists- not simply blue collar assembly line workers.
We don’t even need to speak in hypotheticals. Just look at the engineers brought in for big tech under h1b’s. We have people here who can do this work. They would prefer to import the labor under one of these programs, because it makes them easier to exploit, and afraid to quit abusive employers.
You are so thoroughly indoctrinated, you can’t seem to separate capitalist propaganda from reality.
Nah. I get it, but no.
This is the one thing you keep missing. We don't have people here who can do the work. Straight up. All the big players send their engineers to learn from TSMC for a reason. Of all the labor, of all the capital, these people are the exceptions to every rule.
Capitalists went to extreme lengths to win the nuclear arms race. They will go to the same lengths to keep winning the digital arms race too. These engineers will never be billionaires on their brains alone - because you're right, they do not own the capital - but they do have a significantly higher value than any other laborers in the eyes of capitalists and therefore will never be deported to a rival.
So to clarify, you do not believe US engineers could ever do this? Why do you believe this is a skillset that only exists in Taiwan?
For the same reason the world believes it - because its true. They are the cutting edge. Other engineers can take over in the same way that other scientists could have taken over the Apollo program. It's possible, but it takes time, money, effort, and luck, and in the meantime the other nation(s) will land on the moon first.
All of the other companies are actively trying to beat TSMC and losing. Computer chips are the rocket engines of the digital age.
You’re dodging the question. Why do you believe they’re beating us?
I personally believe it’s due to lack of public investment in education and technology in western countries. But the fact that you keep coming back to eugenics-themed arguments is concerning. So again, why do you think it is they’re beating us?
And you are correct, but why do you assume there's any eugenics-themed arguments above? There is nothing of the sort. Everything the other poster says is completely compatible with Taiwan investing in education and technology that the US failed to do.
I get that impression because of the projections that my preference for US citizens to get the jobs in the US is somehow xenophobic, the references to Project Paperclip, and the insistence that these jobs can only possibly be filled by importing exploitable labor instead of getting people educated & trained here.
It’s been clear for decades that we needed this talent developed here in the states. They’ve been pushing the chips act for years, with building the factories expected to take years after passing. In all that time, we can’t get the people trained here? Bullshit.
The US supported Taiwan for ideological reasons long before TSMC was a thing. Your reading of the situation is completely bunk.
Yes, it used to only be about our global fascist anti-communism war crime spree.
And still is, so your point is still bunk.