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FXI directional thesis

China already makes most of the robot arms and supply chain, so when smart software makes that hardware hugely valuable, the strongest compounding loop sits there, not in the US.

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obviously robot arms are being manufactured in China. And so if you live in this world where The hardware is just incredibly valuable to ramp up manufacturing of because each robot can produce some fraction of the value that a human worker can produce
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