Amazon's goal is to replace people with robots. For better or worse, this will mean less jobs. All the tech giants are open about this, hence them all suggesting that Universal Basic Income is the future.
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Just as people with shovels were largely replaced by construction equipment. It's not that jobs go away necessarily, it's just that the nature of the jobs that exist change. Automation has been increasing since at least the Industrial Revolution and robotics is just one of the latest forms. I'm a bit skeptical of a Universal Basic Income. It or something like it may be necessary one day but until robots are good and building, fixing and improving other robots and we get to a point where resources are not scarce (say Star Trek replicator level technology), I don't really see the net amount of jobs decreasing by a huge amount in the near future. Maybe a UBI would be a good thing but they would have to get rid of social security, medicare, welfare, etc. and just have the UBI. It really depends on the implementation I suppose but government hasn't been very good at implementing massive welfare programs so I'm not optimistic.