That is kind of a stupid brainless comment but I'll bite. Why do we have to subsidize 1% of out GDP, farmers? Why were factory workers, at one point 20-30% of the economy told when their jobs were shipped overseas to "learn to code" or become doctors. I kid you not I was around in the 90's when this sh!t started.
Brainless? LOL.
Modern economies are driven by people transforming materials in one form to products (including intermediate materials) of another form.
In the semi-primitive Chinese economy, automation does not alleviate the need for people.
If China cannot feed its people, it cannot operate their economy.
This isn’t just economics. It includes sociology.