> I would like to do my own robotic assembly now. It's going the other way. Automation increases the return to scale. Your grandparents probably performed a l

> I would like to do my own robotic assembly now. It's going the other way. Automation increases the return to scale. Your grandparents probably performed a lot of non-robotic assembly: making food and clothes at home was basically the same process as in a factory. The gain from having 1000 people making chairs under one roof was modest. But a massively automated factory that turns trees into Ikea chairs isn't something that makes one a day, more like one a second. So there are fewer.