Intel is building a $20 billion facility in Arizona with financial support from the US government. NBC News reported workers are on the construction site for “two 60-hour weeks followed by a 50-hour week for months at a time in the hot Arizona weather with no paid vacation time.”

Many of these workers are coming from out of state and leaving their friends and families behind to live in temporary housing or hotels for months or years at a time. Josh Vitale, a superintendent for Hoffman Construction, the general contractor overseeing the construction of the Intel computer chip factory, told NBC News, “There’s a lot that goes into how stressful it is, not just physically, but mentally and psychologically … we have to realize that we are legitimately wringing the life out of people.”

They’re making workers leave their lives behind for months at a time to toil in the desert and live in sardine cans. With no vacation. Yeah it’s real surprising that suicide is on the rise and no young people are joining the industry.

This all happened in Oklahoma, the state where the openly fash superintendent of public education (Ryan Walters) appointed the also-openly-fash Libs of Tiktok creator (Chaya Raichik) to serve on the Media Advisory Committee. These people barred trans kids from playing sports and pissing in the correct bathroom and are also banning queer literature and sex ed from school libraries by calling it pornography.

It’s worth mentioning that Chaya made twitter posts gloating about Nex’s death, calling people “haters, losers, and liars”. She also has only been to Oklahoma once and isn’t a librarian or teacher (requirements to have her position).

TSMC got delayed because the local union demanded they stop replacing them with foreign workers and Samsung is delaying their construction because they’re fighting with Intel for subsidies.

Lol and we call these companies “job creators” when we have to fight them to even hire us. And why can’t Samsung pull themselves up by their bootstraps and free market themselves a factory, hmmm? 🤔

The CSET study looked at fab construction between 1990 and 2020, and concluded that for the roughly 635 fabs built in that timeframe, the average time between the start of construction and production was 682 days. Three countries beat that benchmark: Taiwan at 654 days on average, Korea at 620, and Japan at a staggeringly fast 584 days. Meanwhile, Europe and the Middle East were about on par at 690 days, as was China at 701 days.

However, the U.S. clocked in at 736 days, well above the worldwide average and second only to Southeast Asia at 781.

Idk if I’m just a rube, but one month of difference doesn’t seem like that big a deal. Also this author says that Taiwan is a country and that environmental protections should be cut to speed up construction.

The US already did that with Afghanistan didn’t they? The US froze their central bank reserves and then chose how to spend it for them.

Stuff like this makes me think. The ruling class has access to canonicity that regular people just don’t, so even if we know they’re lying and they know they’re lying to us, we are still obliged to treat their narratives as fact. Republicans said that Biden is cutting off our oil so that’s canon now, end of story.

Is there a red sails essay on this? There’s got to be someone who wrote about this topic in better words than I could express.

I can’t tell if this is for real. Even that document reads like an elaborate, academic shitpost.

Musk is a Hamas agent who diverted American funds to build a tunnel from Gaza to LA. Trust.

I can’t wait to see urban exploration videos of it on YouTube after it gets dilapidated.

$15 for one potato?? That’s just a creative way to do wage theft

This article linked to this page to explain why they chose that definition of middle class. It’s because statisticians like it so yeah, pretty arbitrary.

The top 1% holds $38.7 trillion in wealth. That’s more than the combined wealth of America’s middle class, a group many economists define as the middle 60% of households by income. Those households hold about 26% of all wealth.

Low-income Americans, representing the bottom 20% by income, own about 3% of the wealth.

So it’s more like the top 1% owns as much wealth as the entire rest of the country.

That’s true for some stuff (premium cables come to mind) but there’s also some things you should still be suspicious of if they’re being sold dirt cheap, like tools. I wouldn’t trust a dollar store saw to cut anything

A lot of that whining is just getting what you paid for and then coping with racism. Like, yeah if you buy the cheapest possible stuff you can find it’s probably gonna suck. But that’s not because Chinese goods are poorly made, it’s because cheap goods are poorly made.

Lol yeah the bean counters needed a way to make America look good so they came up with the idea that homeowners are their own tenants and pay imaginary rent to themselves. They also include healthcare costs in GDP so when a pharma corp charges you 30x more for meds, that’s good for the economy!!

The US cooks the books on everything it does so it’s hard to judge how bad things are truly going, but it means a lot that China’s real numbers are comparable to the bs American stats.

That’s true. But also this is US healthcare we’re talking about so I’d believe it if flying to China works out to be cheaper for someone lol

Many people already go to Mexico for dental work so I imagine it’s possible to do something similar with China, if your medical bills are high enough.

Indiscriminate killing would be an improvement over the discriminate (read: racist) killing the US military does now. Hopefully these bots do some friendly fire lol

So you’re saying zucc has half of all millennial wealth? Or a fiftieth? My head’s swimming in all those numbers 😵‍💫

That emoji makes the blob look like a locoroco, I love it!