Come on, is the best insult you got that I sound like it’s my job to defend workers?

Really and truly, where will the labor cost savings go? There’s going to be one, so who gets it? How will that be enforced?

What’s gonna be done for the people whose labor isn’t needed anymore? Bear in mind we’re not just talking about the protagonists of the now forty year old song “Allentown”, but entire industries that support ice car production like die making and machining. Surely we have some idea of what happens here aside from “theyre fucked, some people’s blood and bonemeal grease the rails of progress”.

You can’t just handwave away the real effects of changes in productivity in the name of abstractly defined technological progress.

If you can’t seriously engage with the effects of a transition to producing electric cars then it’s no wonder American conservatives are making so much hay over it.