[stainforth]

That's a convenient tidbit put forth by who. Reject the premise that "replicating it" requires emphasizing this factor over others. If the true owners of Taiwanese fabs simply took less of the surplus share, the fab could be replicated here by spending more on American workers.

[Robotbeat]

I’m not sure that, in a competitive environment where profit margins are small, that working vast fewer hours is going to beat an aggressive approach like Taiwan’s.

This wouldn’t be a problem, we just let Taiwan work themselves silly why we share in the benefit by getting better and better computer chips, but that doesn’t work if we want to COMPETE with Taiwan in this area.