Does it matter in which country the robots are doing the work? Ultimately that's the future we're shooting for, so this appears to be re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.
It takes about 5 people to run a whole automated factory. The design and development is where the real money is. Let the assembly go to the lowest bidder.
Even with automation, it takes a lot more than five people to run an electronics manufacturing operation. I know first-hand; I supported one earlier in my career.
I'm confident that's true but looking into the future, I can't imagine the trend is going to be more people in automated facilities making more money. This is a transient state. The future is basically full automation in manufacturing facilities with zero humans. We need to design society around that instead of pining for the good old days of banging away at metal with a hammer for money.
Hyperbolically, this is turning America into a renaissance faire as a make work project.
Barring some disaster that sets humanity back significantly progress will accelerate. There will be a point where most people can't keep up, maybe there will be cybernetic modifications to learn faster. I think there will have to be a new form of economy to support people because already we are straining to assign resources efficiency in the US.
There is a photo of the top of the Graf Zeppelin, sister ship of the Hindenburg, being repaired mid-flight[1], so the roof was accessible from inside (through the scaffolding of the interior gas bag area, rather than neatly for passengers), provided quite a large platform, and claimed to be stable in-flight. The gondola had promenade / viewing areas with "large windows which could be opened in flight" visible in the photos in [2], to address concerns about air pressure or temperature.
I don't know if they ever did put deckchairs on top but had they thought of it and wanted to do it, it might have worked out ok. (View was likely better inside, looking down).
Haha, it's a reference to the 2006 White House press correspondents dinner that Colbert hosted, and absolutely destroyed Bush at. It's on YouTube, and it's a great watch.
Colbert was hilarious when he played a blowhard obnoxious conservative. Now that plays a blowhard obnoxious liberal it's not nearly as funny, like he's not putting the same effort into this persona.