According to the article, this plant would employ 30k-50k people. The secondary effects of these jobs would be equally massive. While I would prefer an American company operating the plant, merely employing this many people would be a serious boon.
But Foxcon is pushing very hard on replacing most of its workers with robots. The numbers will probably be more like 3k-5K, not 30k-50k. And they will be high-tech jobs that most of those millions of unemployed factory workers in our country couldn't qualify for.
woodandsteel|9 years ago