Japan has been leading the world in fully automated stored for years now. Amazon and some startups are making the user experience even better. Due to COVID-19 scare (mostly made up by mainstream media and political entities), people might just be more open to a shopping experience that has zero to minimal human contact.
It is just another win for the technology sector and startups and a major loss for minimum wage workers.
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Yep. It is a cleaning out process.
Of course, I can make the case that many of the jobs created over the past couple decades, most of them were worthless and not of much value to begin with. We had a tendency to create jobs just so we could say we created jobs.
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That is very true. "Journalists" are one of the obvious examples. Even when it comes to finance, we have lots of people who merely move money from place to place without even doing proper research. There are many jobs in HR that are high paying but turns out to be glorified charades,