I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.

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[–] 12 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.

Here's one way to wrap your head around the absurdity of it:

Imagine that the entire working population of Nebraska is dedicated to building cars and nothing else.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    The figures are for BYD not just BYD Auto. They also make phone batteries, Apple’s devices, forklifts and monorails

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Are the slave like workers counted in this number, or are they too disposable?

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    [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It likely has more robots than them combined, too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    They're much more than a car manufacturer, right? It makes sense. I remember reading that they make nearly every component of the vehicles themselves, doing everything except maybe the tires and the glass. Assuming I'm more or less right about that, I wonder how many of that number is involved in just assembling vehicles.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    The vehicle assembly might actually not be that many people at all given the level of robotics and automation in China now.

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