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by rustyfe 3552 days ago
Where your customers are, insofar as there is capital and labor (even robotic factories break down) there to support it. That might mean onshoring for Americans, but I don't think that's true everywhere.

Look at how China is investing in Africa. In this hypothetical future, I can still see a country with large amounts of robotic equipment, lots of people educated to operate and program them, and good shipping infrastructure dominating global trade.

It will just be a highly developed China shipping to developing nations, instead of a developing China shipping to developed nations.

You can plug in your choice of robotic manufacturing country for China if you'd like, the point stands, but I see China as well positioned to maintain their lead in manufacturing if they are very smart.