Elon Musk

So we're really missing a lot of ore refining in America.

Yes.

Well, I think there are some things being done on that front.

But we kind of need optimists, frankly, to build ore refineries.

China's got like four times our population, so.

You can close that recursive loop pretty quickly.

Yeah.

So you close the recursive loop to help the robots build the robots.

And then we can try to get to tens of millions of units a year.

If you start getting to hundreds of millions of units a year, I think you're going to be the most competitive country by far.

We definitely can't win with just humans because China has four times our population.

Right.

And frankly, America's been winning for so long that just like a pro sports team that's been running for a very long time tend to get complacent and entitled.

And that's why they stop winning because it's, you know, don't work as hard anymore.

So I think, frankly, just...

My observation is the average work ethic in China is higher than in the US.

So it's not just that there's four times the population, but the amount of work that people put in is higher.

So you can try to rearrange the humans, but you're still one quarter of the... Assuming that productivity is the same, which I think actually it might not be.

I think China might have an advantage on productivity per person.

We will do one quarter of the amount of things as China.