Elon Musk

So we can't win on the human front.

And our birth rate's been low for a long time.

So our birth rate's been, the US birth rate's been below replacement since roughly 1971.

So we've got a lot of people retiring or more people dying than, we're close to sort of more people domestically dying than being born.

So we definitely can't win on the human front, but we might have a shot at the robot front.

Yeah, I think we'd like to build more ore refineries at Tesla.

So we just completed construction and have begun lithium refining with our lithium refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas.

We have a nickel refinery, which is for the cathode, that's here in Austin.

And this is the largest cathode refinery, largest lithium refinery

the largest nickel and lithium refinery outside of China.

And it's like the cathode team would say, like, we have the largest and the only actually cathode refinery in America.

Many supernovas.

Not just the largest, but it's also the only.

So it was pretty big, even though it's the only one.

But I mean, there are other things that, you know,

You could do a lot more refineries and help America be more competitive on refining capacity.

So there's basically a lot of work for the optimizer to do that most Americans, very few Americans, frankly, want to do.

I mean, I've actually... Is the refining work too dirty or what's the...

It's not, actually, no, we don't, there's not, we don't have toxic emissions from the refinery or anything.

The cathode nickel refinery is sort of in Travis County, like five minutes from... Why can't you do it with humans?