My sympathies have been with the Taiwan people since I visited there many years ago. I am having trouble writing anything about American advantages, as both the PRC and the ROC are sovereign nations. America should just butt out.
Sigh. Don't we have enough problems here that we aren't taking care of to want to create new and needless ones overseas? It seems the only thing this administration is good at is focusing on the inconsequential (i.e., things that don't need to be done and that will harm us if they are done, like the gas stove and washing machine thing, and the promotion of woke policies everywhere, plus forcing the vaccine mandate, etc, etc, etc) that only they care about but that wreak havoc for the rest of us.
You certainly have your work cut out for you, opposing the BBC and the gd proxy wars. I pray for your success. None of the proxy wars benefit me, they are done for ego and gain.
Taiwan is of course important to the world for the manufacture of electronic chips. Its workers, some of the world’s poorest, working in the worst conditions.”
You must be talking about some other country. Taiwan people have it great. And TSMC workers have it even better. Not poor at all, great working conditions. The exception is factories using imported labor. They are not paid or treated well. These are jobs Taiwan people wont do.
“Taiwan is of course important to the world for the manufacture of electronic chips. Its workers, some of the world’s poorest, working in the worst conditions.”
Seriously? This statement might have been more accurate in the immediate post-war era when Taiwan was early in its occupation by the Nationalist Kuomintang regime. But the country underwent extensive economic and industrial development and since the 1980s has been a modern, developed country. There is a wage gap, and a wealth gap between the really rich and the average worker, but most Taiwanese can afford to buy new cars, dress well, pursue hobbies, and travel around the world.
The average per capita income is around US$22,600 as of 2022, but the cost of living is still reasonable. For instance, a delicious breakfast washed down with milk tea costs about 3 USD, whereas an omelet and coffee is 18 bucks here in Commiefornia.
Taiwan has its issues with wage inequality and good paying jobs for qualified graduates, but by no means are her workers among the poorest in the world.
I sometimes go half-caff when I see one of those hazelnut coffees (yeah, I know, but it's now and then). It's a syndrome. I think they're in an endless loop where they have to keep tweaking. This may be behind much of their private fault-finding and their crazy eco codes. They fix something small and fail to see how much chaos they cause in the big picture. Of course, tackling the big picture, even the thought, would overwhelm them, and so they keep tweaking away. (I began this with whimsy, but I think I've decoded something real that I could never figure out.)
Also, China isn’t after Taiwan for her “sweatshop labor”, not just because Taiwan doesn’t have sweatshops, but China has more than enough surplus migrant labor of its own.
It would take a book to detail all the historical, political and economic factors for why China wants to absorb Taiwan back as part of its territory, which by the way it hasn’t been part of since China (under the Qing dynasty) ceded it to Japan in 1895.
It's infuriating because it's so witless. The fridge people, I can understand. The gains are there for them. It's normal to want to sell more. What's needed is a fridge company that breaks the mold, like Warby Parker for glasses. But in the mean time it's kind of fun to point out the policy failures like when I told a friend that higher minimum wages meant fewer jobs for people and small companies being unable to stay in business. They're stunned they haven't thought of everything in their quest to do good.
There are numerous facts and factions at play here. The biggest by far is the armaments industry. They want constant saber rattling. And they want constant SMALL wars. They need to expend the armaments. Joe Biden, all the big Dems, and all the big Rs get rich from ‘proxy wars’. As do Brit big pols and German and French etc.
My sympathies have been with the Taiwan people since I visited there many years ago. I am having trouble writing anything about American advantages, as both the PRC and the ROC are sovereign nations. America should just butt out.
Sigh. Don't we have enough problems here that we aren't taking care of to want to create new and needless ones overseas? It seems the only thing this administration is good at is focusing on the inconsequential (i.e., things that don't need to be done and that will harm us if they are done, like the gas stove and washing machine thing, and the promotion of woke policies everywhere, plus forcing the vaccine mandate, etc, etc, etc) that only they care about but that wreak havoc for the rest of us.
You certainly have your work cut out for you, opposing the BBC and the gd proxy wars. I pray for your success. None of the proxy wars benefit me, they are done for ego and gain.
I'd say the main issue is that China won't accept a US military base in Taiwan.
Taiwan is of course important to the world for the manufacture of electronic chips. Its workers, some of the world’s poorest, working in the worst conditions.”
You must be talking about some other country. Taiwan people have it great. And TSMC workers have it even better. Not poor at all, great working conditions. The exception is factories using imported labor. They are not paid or treated well. These are jobs Taiwan people wont do.
“Taiwan is of course important to the world for the manufacture of electronic chips. Its workers, some of the world’s poorest, working in the worst conditions.”
Seriously? This statement might have been more accurate in the immediate post-war era when Taiwan was early in its occupation by the Nationalist Kuomintang regime. But the country underwent extensive economic and industrial development and since the 1980s has been a modern, developed country. There is a wage gap, and a wealth gap between the really rich and the average worker, but most Taiwanese can afford to buy new cars, dress well, pursue hobbies, and travel around the world.
The average per capita income is around US$22,600 as of 2022, but the cost of living is still reasonable. For instance, a delicious breakfast washed down with milk tea costs about 3 USD, whereas an omelet and coffee is 18 bucks here in Commiefornia.
Taiwan has its issues with wage inequality and good paying jobs for qualified graduates, but by no means are her workers among the poorest in the world.
I sometimes go half-caff when I see one of those hazelnut coffees (yeah, I know, but it's now and then). It's a syndrome. I think they're in an endless loop where they have to keep tweaking. This may be behind much of their private fault-finding and their crazy eco codes. They fix something small and fail to see how much chaos they cause in the big picture. Of course, tackling the big picture, even the thought, would overwhelm them, and so they keep tweaking away. (I began this with whimsy, but I think I've decoded something real that I could never figure out.)
Also, China isn’t after Taiwan for her “sweatshop labor”, not just because Taiwan doesn’t have sweatshops, but China has more than enough surplus migrant labor of its own.
It would take a book to detail all the historical, political and economic factors for why China wants to absorb Taiwan back as part of its territory, which by the way it hasn’t been part of since China (under the Qing dynasty) ceded it to Japan in 1895.
It's infuriating because it's so witless. The fridge people, I can understand. The gains are there for them. It's normal to want to sell more. What's needed is a fridge company that breaks the mold, like Warby Parker for glasses. But in the mean time it's kind of fun to point out the policy failures like when I told a friend that higher minimum wages meant fewer jobs for people and small companies being unable to stay in business. They're stunned they haven't thought of everything in their quest to do good.
There are numerous facts and factions at play here. The biggest by far is the armaments industry. They want constant saber rattling. And they want constant SMALL wars. They need to expend the armaments. Joe Biden, all the big Dems, and all the big Rs get rich from ‘proxy wars’. As do Brit big pols and German and French etc.