Foxconn Planning New $10B Factory

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Foxconn has been rumored to be planning a new factory in the sity of Chengdu, where the wages are lower and workers more plentiful than their current base in Shenzhen. $10 billion dollar factory, sounds pretty nice! I bet it’s to die for…

Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou is likely to announce the plans when he visits Chengdu next week, the first source said.
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/me waits for Kyle to chime in on this news so he can add another classic quote to his sig... ;)
 
Billions for the plant,pennies for the workers. Guess they're running out of people in Shenzhen. Hell of a way to control overpopulation.
 
While these jobs are not desirable to those of us in developed countries, have people who are complaining considered what the actual comparable alternative employment for a person in China of similar talent/education/experience of someone working at Foxconn is?
 
.........More chinamen working for minumum wage in poor conditions; making products for Americans to buy and flow more of our American dollars overseas.

Buy American
 
lol they need a new factory to make all those Nvidia cards for Nvidia.. :p
 
I'm actually surprised they didn't open one up in Vietnam. Labor is cheaper there by far.
 
Originally Posted by Negative Decibel
so...They are designing this factory in a way that will make it harder to jump off the roof, right?

annual employee wages - $4.56/person
relocation to new plant - $10,000
fencing for the roof - $9.99 Billion



...........PRICELESS....hehe!:D
 
"I bet it’s to die for…"


Truly classless sense of humor.




But then I admit, I aint got no class either.
 
Not surprising; the bottom tier of Chinese manufacturing has been moving inland for a while now.
 
limitedaccess said:
While these jobs are not desirable to those of us in developed countries, have people who are complaining considered what the actual comparable alternative employment for a person in China of similar talent/education/experience of someone working at Foxconn is?
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Constantly. There are already OEM/ODM factories in Chengdu, so this is not really news.
 
Luxor said:
.........More chinamen working for minumum wage in poor conditions; making products for Americans to buy and flow more of our American dollars overseas.

Buy American
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I've been to many, many factories, and those workers have better working conditions than I did working in a Coca-Cola bottling plant or wooden fan blade factory in the US.
 
Luxor said:
.........More chinamen working for minumum wage in poor conditions; making products for Americans to buy and flow more of our American dollars overseas.

Buy American
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Buy America backfired lol
 
Luxor said:
.........More chinamen working for minumum wage in poor conditions; making products for Americans to buy and flow more of our American dollars overseas.

Buy American
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Well, when you buy from Apple you are. The guys in China are getting the chicken shit in the bottom corner of the cash drawer. The parts suppliers get the coins. Apple never lets any of the paper money leave the country.

So...you go argue over the spare change, I'll worry about the Benjamins.
 
limitedaccess said:
While these jobs are not desirable to those of us in developed countries, have people who are complaining considered what the actual comparable alternative employment for a person in China of similar talent/education/experience of someone working at Foxconn is?
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Let me guess, you work for one of the American companies that profit nicely from slave labor?
 
mortonP said:
Let me guess, you work for one of the American companies that profit nicely from slave labor?
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One, they aren't slave labor. Most of them in the electronics factories work for three or four years then go home to their native province with a nice nest egg. Right now, labor is so short that they hop companies several times in that period to get pay raises.

Two, what do you seriously believe would be their lifestyle if there were no factories producing good for the West in China? While I'm not saying history repeats itself, google "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution" as an indication of what the Chinese people have lived with in the past few generations.

Lastly, if we believe that ending an autocratic Communist government in China is a Good Thing, can you think of a tool better than rampant capitalism to do so?
 
Breakrooms not included in plan for $10B factory. There are no breaks thus no need for breakrooms.
 
You could buy danger den, I think all their stuff is american...your not going to get anything...electronic however.
 
"$10 billion dollar factory, sounds pretty nice! I bet it’s to die for…"

*Puts sunglasses on*

YEEAAAAAAHHHHH....
 
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