My rural town's high school, with an average graduating class of about a hundred, has an after school robotics class that kicks a$$ and takes names at local, regional and state level competitions. Combining programming, problem solving, mechanical engineering, CAD/CAM, milling, machining and human resource allocation skills in a state of the art wood and metal shop. Admittedly, their 4x8 flat bed wood router cnc is a bit clunky and antiquated but the HAAS metal machining center is up to the job and they go hard for that state wide brass ring every year.

More and more robotics are in small local job shops in every community. I know, I'm one. Robotics allows me to maintain my current existence. Robotics and a global supply chain that looks to be going away from hubris and incompetence. I doubt Jake Sullivan knows how to turn a screw much less know where they come from.

There's a lot of capability in the streets. The ruling classes above?... not so much.