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You should go down and tell them just what you thing, smart guy with all the amswers
They're basically right. Automation kills jobs. More profit goes to the corpos and not the workers. If we redistributed those extra profits (tax heavily and reinvest in social programs), losing your job wouldn't be a potentially life-destroying experience. We don't need to have jobs that can be automated, but until we use that excess profit to help people, workers literally can't afford to not do those jobs.
For every job replaced by a robot, at least 1 job is created by way of needing millwright to install the equipment and technicians to commission it and program it.
Have you shopped for groceries in the last 5 years? See one cashier watching 4 self check out lanes? Then how could you still believe this?