Why TSMC has struggled to manufacture chips in Arizona

I estimate that a large part of Taiwanese success is a level of discipline from top to bottom, built over a period of decades upon a foundation that does not exist in Arizona.

Probably a certain level of country-wide discipline might need to exist before any one city can become a center of excellence to build the further discipline necessary for such a large workforce to have a degree of uniform excess in this regard.

Lots of dangerous chemicals involved and extreme processes, I would say a number of show-stoppers over the decades have been overcome and are still barely possible as a result of extreme individual self-discipline by not only key decision makers at critical times, but across-the-board. Where the widespread self-discipline may be the most massive important characteristic, but may not even be recognized when there is an ominous top-down layer imposed in addition.

Quite simply with chemicals you need a hell of a lot more discipline than you can get in the military, it's got to be well-ingrained before you join so you can see the way to grow forward from there without being told what to do as much.

There's always going to be an ominous hierarchy, but it needs to be held to the absolute minimum necessary to be effective so that it can be more easily embedded in a workforce culture that is the most receptively prepared, and to whom it makes the most sense.

Discipline is not as sensible to be an end in itself, as it is a means to an end.