Nobody in Wilder, Idaho expected this. The tiny farming town of 1,725 people—where nine out of ten voters backed Donald Trump in 2024—is now scrambling to figure out what comes next after federal immigration agents swept through in mid-October and arrested more than 100 Hispanic workers at a local horse racetrack. So far, 75 people have been deported, and the farms that keep this place running are facing a labour shortage with no easy fix in sight.
Don’t worry. Elon Musk will just build robots to do all that labor. Just wait. 5 years, tops.
You said five years ten years ago!
People give the Soviet Union a lot of shit for their 5 year plans that never seem to fully pan out. But no one gives a fuck about Elon Musk’s predictions.
Similar to how the Ford Pinto is still a joke in the auto industry even though Teslas are much, MUCH more fire/explosion prone than a junk car from the 1970s and have killed far more people. The death rate of Pintos vs. other cars of the period was not as different as some people think, but the death rate of Teslas? That is higher.
Teslas are also a joke, especially in the industry, and Elmo’s bullshit is similarly panned.
We’re on mars now, just like he said we would be ten years ago when he said we would be there in ten years. Just like he’s converting his tesla factories to build AI robots that will totally be ready ten years from now.
It turns out robots are much more useful as an excuse to suppress workers rights and wages than they are at doing real work.