American Factory

The scary thing to me was not the cult like indoctrination and working conditions at the Chinese branch of the company and the expectations of the same from American workers. People can get used to almost anything. The scary part is that the film showed us the limits of human performance, a futile desperate attempt to outperform the robots, to delay the inevitable. A worker in China, even working 12 hours a day can maybe be 3 times as productive as an American worker, but so what? A machine will work 24/7, never complain, never get tired and be 10 times as productive.

I think the Chinese understand it but American workers in the film are in complete denial, longing for the past that was just a fleeting moment in history.