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To be totally honest, I could actually see Green Bay reinventing itself in order to accommodate an enterprise like this.
It's an awful lot of reinventing, though.
Green Bay is going to have to have enough low income housing and enough infrastructure to provide adequate schools and city services for a large influx of skilled workers.
An "innovation center" isn't a manufacturing mecca, it's a design hub.
Are American college age kids able to afford the needed training to fill those jobs or is this another H-1B bonanza?
The only way I see it as a net positive for Americans is if Foxconn is willing to at least partially underwrite the necessary tech curriculum to crank out American designers.
The question is, is it more practical and cheaper for Foxconn to do that or to just ship over a few thousand immigrants who already have the training and don't mind adjusting to life in America's Dairyland, where people have already been trained to not welcome foreigners?
That's the pudding and that's the tasting. We'll know in less than six months how that is going to pan out.
It's an awful lot of reinventing, though.
Green Bay is going to have to have enough low income housing and enough infrastructure to provide adequate schools and city services for a large influx of skilled workers.
An "innovation center" isn't a manufacturing mecca, it's a design hub.
Are American college age kids able to afford the needed training to fill those jobs or is this another H-1B bonanza?
The only way I see it as a net positive for Americans is if Foxconn is willing to at least partially underwrite the necessary tech curriculum to crank out American designers.
The question is, is it more practical and cheaper for Foxconn to do that or to just ship over a few thousand immigrants who already have the training and don't mind adjusting to life in America's Dairyland, where people have already been trained to not welcome foreigners?
That's the pudding and that's the tasting. We'll know in less than six months how that is going to pan out.