Last week, Viola Zhou published a deep dive into the culture clash between Taiwanese boss mentality and American labor practices at the Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) plant in Arizona. The clash is between a work culture that offers employee autonomy and work-life balance, and one that runs on hierarchical discipline enforced by chickenshit. Chickenshit is defined as petty harassment, sadism, and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Taiwan's chickenshit culture starts from birth, with examples including measuring students' hair length, punishing students in the sun, and the death of a recruit due to denial of water. Chickenshit is also seen in the immense quantities of paperwork, endless meetings, and arbitrary punishments. Taiwan's boss culture is defined by its chickenshit approach, demanding perfection, requiring unnecessary clocking in and docking of pay, and public abuse for tiny errors. The chickenshit response is to blame someone else and promise it won't happen again. Chickenshit culture lowers productivity, reduces efficiency, and leads to high turnover. Democratization has helped cut work hours and increase oversight, but old habits die hard. Taiwan's chickenshit business culture is killing the nation's future. [daa0ac83]