Glad to hear Tesla is doing it here. The world is going through an extensive sort out. China costing too much, won’t take our plastics to recycle. Bangladesh and Vietnam are both cheaper and getting business from China as well as us. China, Japan and S. Korea are getting together for economic planning. China heavy in Africa and central Asia, even some in S. America. How will robotics improve the employment situation. There is a story about Walter Reuther, UAW, touring an auto plant with Henry Ford. Ford was raving about his automated plant and quality product. So, said Reuther, who is going to buy the cars with no workers earning money? Now they are about to launch self driving autos.
Of course, we went through the same thing 40 and 50 years ago when the NEw England textile and furniture making moved to the South, but then eventually overseas. I imagine the West Coast dock strikes recently made some wish their supply chains were not so long. Maybe Walmart and other biggies will decide US made is better if it is much more reliable. Of course, if their $21,000,000 CEO is representative of pay near and at the top, they will still have a hard time paying their workers a living wage with which to buy their products.
Read today that Mexico is undercutting China on manufacturing auto parts, that’s quite a swing from 10-15 yrs ago.