I guess so. To be clear, the guy is bad for most of us, work wise. Not just blue collar.
I really didn’t even know about the Tesla Bot, I was just looking on their site about the taxi. They list the usefulness of the Bot as doing “unsafe, boring or tedious jobs”. Unsafe is the reason of having high pay of many blue collar jobs. Same can be said of tedious as well. What job isn’t boring at times? These things are supposed to be $20k-$30k. Imagine being a line worker that makes $120k+, mostly because it is dangerous work. That is pay alone, that company likely pays twice that amount in insurance, taxes, benefits. Replaced for $20k???
Having a guy whose business model is set up to replace human jobs with AI and robotics, be the guy in charge of “efficiency”… I wonder how many of these “winning” factories supposedly moving to the US will be fully automated? Does moving manufacturing to the US mean all that much if it creates 20 new jobs, but should create 500? A simple Google search of what jobs will AI eliminate, manufacturing is pretty high on the list. Who needs regulations, businesses will do the right thing….