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< Some of Toyota's modern car plants employ a meager 1500 people which is about and order of magnitude decrease from what car plants used to employ.

1500 jobs + the peripheral jobs (as a another commentator pointed out) could be a boon for many of the small counties* in which these plants are located.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toyota_manufacturing_f...

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It won't be 1500 forever. Automation hasn't stopped, or slowed, it just keeps increasing

And a lot of those peripheral jobs being talked about are also in line to be automated away.

The biggest cost gains have probably been realized, especially given the reduction in long term obligations (pension, healthcare, weakened union position). I could see another round or two of automation, but at some point it's not worth investing in.

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