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12. Good points to consider.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 02:40 PM
Sep 19

The low wage workers could very easily be the greatest proportion of their factory workforce as automation and AI can be easily be used in production analysis and material acquisition and handling. Barely any skilled labor would be needed.
As far as being cheaper than China, let me move the goalposts here and say cheaper than South Korea. Why else would South Korea choose to manufacture their own product abroad and then import it? Obviously the cost of production here is significantly lower than the costs there if what we can make a car for, plus the costs of shipping, is less than their own domestic production. Essential we would be to them what historically China has been to us.
And no one can discount how many monkeys with typewriters are in the current administration, an open variable.

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