And these days, with all the social networks, how is it that there wasn't a specialized space for getting to know people through co-working on something. It's either classroom or workplace, which had monopolized the most interesting thing about making relationships -- doing something exciting and potentially useful together!
Is Intel poaching TSMC senior engineers in Arizona ( https://tinyurl.com/duvfkrm2 ) related? Cause, I would be really pissed off, if I we'd agreed to build a factory in foreign land out of desire to build good long-term relationships, and then, that country's strategically important corporation would decide take away our key engineers.
What's normalized in context of free opportunistic market can be seen as treacherous in context of politics and in the behaviors of strategically important enterprises of countries.