The whole Idea of robots is to cut labor and you only need so many hopper loaders.
Shoveler: My argument is that the automation of manufacturing, etc has already happened. It’s just done by bio-robots in China and call-center employees in India.
Replace the bio-robots with actual robots in the US at a similar manufacturing + shipping cost, and manufacturing could actually come back to US shores en masse. It would be cleaner, safer, better quality, and most importantly, employ Americans at high productivity levels.