Not just that but you are deeply underestimating the cost of automation compared to manufacturing margins, which in the middle market I really doubt is changing

Not just that but you are deeply underestimating the cost of automation compared to manufacturing margins, which in the middle market I really doubt is changing. Unfortunately, human hands are still much cheaper than machines. I see a fair bit of manufacturing in Chicago, and I don’t see any of these equations changing in the way that this article purports them to