Automation is great , like in the automotive industry doing welds used to take 20 people and another 5 to check every weld , with a robot you can program it to make the same welds in the same spots all day long , those 20 people lost that job but they also lost years of twisting and bending and bright sparks on the body . The biggest problem with automation is timing , if Walmart could replace all their drivers and workers with robots and only have like 5 techs per location they would do it tomorrow but being the largest corporation to employ people just picture 1 . 4 million people suddenly losing their jobs and have nothing to fall back on thrown into the unemployment line . Automation is great when done properly .