Elon Musk
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No, you can, you just run out of humans.
Ah, I see, okay, yeah.
Like, no matter what you do, you have one quarter of the number of humans in America than China.
So if you have them do this thing, they can't do the other thing.
So then, well, how do you build this refining capacity?
Well, you can do it with Optimaia.
Not very many Americans are pining to do refining.
I mean, how many of you are running to?
Very few.
Well, China's extremely competitive in manufacturing.
So I think there's going to be a massive flood of Chinese vehicles and other basically most manufactured things.
I mean, as it is, as I said, China's probably just twice as much refining as the rest of the world combined.
So if you go
If you just go down to fourth and fifth tier supply chain stuff, like at the base level, we've got energy.
Then you've got mining and refining.
Those foundation layers are...
Like I said, as a rough guess, China's doing twice as much refining as the rest of the world combined.
So any given thing is going to have Chinese content because China's doing twice as much refining work as the rest of the world.
And then they'll go all the way to the finished product with the cars.
China's a powerhouse.