>>miohta+(OP)
Also:

"From 2001-2020, Intel blew $128 billion on buybacks (64% of net income) on top of paying out $68 billion as dividends (35% of net income),” notes Lazonick. That’s money that couldn’t go into innovation, retaining and training employees, R&D, and other critical areas.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/america-need...

>>guywit+N1
You should consider reading the article: https://archive.ph/h1RrC

And no, Biden didn't sign a "280 billion dollar Intel subsidy for chip-making." If you're talking about the CHIPS and Science Act, that number is overall authorized funding for many things. Intel has received ~10b until now.

>>vghdil+U9
TSMC already manufactures chips in the US, much of their value add comes from European companies like ASML and Zeiss, and the fundamental technology EUV was invented in the US.

> and homeschool kids for 15 hours per day with the world’s best educational resources

Taiwan doesn't have the world's best educational resources - what language do you think they're written in?

Btw, when they did try to do this, they ended up with a national epidemic of myopia and had to make the kids go outside.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/01/shortsighted-t...