Fox … Con

“In exchange for billions in tax subsidies, Foxconn was supposed to build an enormous LCD factory in the tiny village of Mount Pleasant, creating 13,000 jobs. Three years later, the factory — and the jobs — don’t exist, and they probably never will. Inside the empty promises and empty buildings of Wisconn Valley.” Josh Dzieza in The Verge: The 8th Wonder of the World. They may not have built Southeastern Wisconsin into a tech manufacturing powerhouse. But they built one hell of a metaphor.

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