>given the issues with the far-right in Saxony
What does that have to do with anything?
California has plenty of neonazis itself. The western world in general has no lack of far right extremists.
What does that have to do with anything?
California has plenty of neonazis itself. The western world in general has no lack of far right extremists.
[1] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/fachkraeftemangel-bloss-ni...
Do they have the same issues?
I assume the open border facilitates travel somewhat.
It seems like most of the US has this problem. And yet rural IT always seems to find a way. I’m in Lake Saint Louis with gigabit symmetric fiber, which is a dream. We were backwater for awhile, but post COVID a lot of talent can be sourced remotely, at least for software.
Is a fab really so regional? I could imagine them having a team in Taiwan who they work with remotely. But I know very little about fab plants, and it sounds like you have a better idea of their engineering and IT requirements.
I used to work at Groq, a hardware company, and we were fully remote. So I’ve seen this work in practice. (It’s a tossup whether Groq will succeed, but that’s a separate conversation.)
The US still benefits from latent good marketing/rep in the 80s/90s, and projection of military power in decades past. For example, until relatively recently (the Trump era and especially how it ended disillusioned many), South Koreans still looked to the US as their model of the developed world. If you'd send your children anywhere to get educated or marry, it would be there. Inner benchmarks were done against the US. The rose-tinted glasses were enough to convince many to move without checking too carefully what the place they'd be moving to would actually be like.
This is changing, and more recently more attention is being paid to Europe, partially because the national conversation has shifted more toward quality of life, birthrate problems, aging population, etc. and there's more interest in social systems, healthcare, family planning support and so on.
Still, Koreans have a lot of memes about this or that place in Europe being racist in this or that way (and of course, quite lot of it is true), so it remains a big impediment.
That seems like a 'slight' overstatement. Saxony is also full of crypto-communists (third highest polling state for Linke)...
> The main problem isn’t staffing the plant with human assembly and packaging
So why on earth are these companies building they are fabs there instead of some other place in Germany? I mean they can't be that stupid to not understand all of this?
[1] https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2018-10/recht...
This article [1] claims that there were 399 reported assaults associated with left-wing extremists, compared to 1013 associated with right-wing extremists.
Edit: and when it comes to property damage and arson, the far left is worse than the far right by about 3:1 [2]. This may be particularily relevant for companies who want to start new businesses.
[1] https://www.dw.com/en/left-wing-extremism-in-germany-how-muc...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/963069/right-wing-left-w...