As per the article: > Americans workers at TSMC’s Arizona fab may chafe at becoming the humble students of their mentors in Taiwan, who nearly 50 years ago tra

As per the article: > Americans workers at TSMC’s Arizona fab may chafe at becoming the humble students of their mentors in Taiwan, who nearly 50 years ago transferred semiconductor technology from RCA of the U.S. It was more geostrategic rather than capitalist outsourcing that lead to the knowledge transfer, but after that transfer was complete, the economic factors mentioned by the person you're responding to would fully be in effect. A nontrivial part of Taiwan's economic success has been that knowledge transfer that enabled the creation of TSMC.