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(Can’t figure out how to edit, but Dominos is still HQ’d here in Ann Arbor. The spat happened after Dominos founder sold off his interests in the company)
I live in Ann Arbor and my wife is at UofM so I accept your explanation.
Somewhat notably Ann Arbor kicked out Dominos founder after he wanted to build a huge crucifix monument on the Dominos campus. After the city council forbade its construction, the founder raged quit and moved his HQ operations to Florida. A Dominos tech mega-campus remains here.
The titans of the mortgage industry (Gilbert and Ishbia) were Michigan State grads. UofM grads tend to seek employment out-of-state
and coastal relative to MSU. Don’t have time to find the stats but it’s true.But the literature on “brain drain” finds that “exit opportunities” raise the bar and expectations for everyone so you’re right to not discount UofM.
Always cool to get inside stories from folks like Vig.
Yeah, the people I hear who are “Taiwan isn’t worth it” are varied, but all share in distance from DC/policy circles.
Best way to encourage the discourse is to write a “steelman” argument that Taiwan isn’t worth it 😉
I wasn’t aware of the dust-up and it looks like the account either blocks me or has gone private.
But I think you are on to something. I’m sure a certain class of people are worried about being “canceled” for saying Taiwan isn’t worth it to the US. Besides personal accounts like the think tanker you mention, maybe there’s some meta-analysis of the “hawk-ish” articles to be done.
How many of them take defending Taiwan as a given or frame in terms of national honor? If a lot of them are taking it as an assumption, then the hawks are punting on the question. If an author frames it in terms of “national honor,” then it implies that they think national honor has more salience than a “cost v. benefits” approach.
In my relatively small sample size, people who don’t care about getting canceled will make the argument Taiwan isn’t worth it. I’ve heard this from the right and the left.
Think so? I’ve been viewing it as a reactionary crackdown. It’s not moving society past anachronistic mores; rather, it’s restoring things as they should be.
* Corporations are an extension of the state and take their orders from the state.
* Children are being corrupted by modern influences. These influences must be limited / made taboo.What else is going on that I’m missing?
If it were the late capitalism crowd running the show, I’d think we’d see the dismantling of industry rather than the heeling of industry. Gender roles would be left in the past.
But maybe there is more going on that I am missing!
Hi there,
I’m Jeff, a former American submariner, and am currently a Navy reservist + technology product manager. I had a brief assignment to the American Institute in Taiwan, and I was initially drawn to Scholar’s Stage by the essays on Taiwan’s military.
Really excited to join a community interested in these subjects!
Jeff
