• Chris@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The untied states doesn’t really have a semiconductor industry. We shipped it all off to China and Taiwan and these fabs take an enormous amount of time and money to get running. All this will do is skyrocket prices

  • Soup@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Ok so he’s threatening people who have the advantage with…something? I mean they could just as easily go “no, we’re good” and then the US would have neither chips nor factories.

    If he’s hoping to have that technology here so the US can steal it, well obviously that’s crazy and these companies have already considered that.

    And even if he was going to be nice to them that’s kinda wild that Mr. Super-racist would be so ok with using American labour to enrich foreign executives.

    Is “the Art of the Deal” about how you can put yourself in absolutely awful bargaining positions while begging for others to do your job for you? ‘Cause he’s excellent at that.

  • arudesalad@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    Is this also on stuff made with the semiconductors? What’s stopping the companies from moving assembly out the US as well?