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Terry_M

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4. Interesting
Mon Sep 4, 2023, 01:34 PM
Sep 2023

To sum up the key point - in 15 years time, the average new electric vehicle will take 10-20% the manual labor as the average gas vehicle does today due to the architecture of an electric vehicle being drastically simpler (fewer individual components) helped along by ongoing improvements in automation.

The article does have some absolute nonsense in it (let's nationalize car production to pay people more to work fewer and fewer hours...? What universe is that practical in?), but putting the nonsense solutions aside it does expose a valid challenge - in 15 years there will be 500k fewer car manufacturing jobs in the US. What should be done about that and who needs to do it?

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