Anyone lost jobs due to automation?

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So has anyone in here lost jobs or is having trouble getting a job due to automation? Where I live due to advances in technology most of the stuff I find cool and such is becoming less and less of a job and with automation and such there are more and more people looking for work. I was wondering if this type of thing is effecting other people?

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At one time, I worked at a video rental place. When Netflix arrived, they very quickly put the company out of business and I had to find another job. This was back in 2008 when it happened.

I say that self checkout machines are job killers because I once got hired to work in a grocery store, but they were also putting in those machines, and after a couple of weeks of training, a bunch of us were laid off. I think it was because they were able to get their older employees to come back to that particular store, including the one person who would have been in charge of those self checkout machines. This was right at the worst of the Great Recession, so I thought I had beaten the odds, only to find myself laid off after 2 weeks of training.

I eventually got another job, but after working there for 3 years, I also got laid off, so since then, I've been looking for a permanent job, not some temp job where you're done after a short period, as I've done that before.

I was doing motion control animation work for tv shows and we were getting fewer clients because, as computers became more powerful, the clients could do similar things in the edit software.

I saw the business declining and since I have a habit of worrying early and often, I started teaching myself computer graphics. So I've been doing graphics for the past 10 to 15 years.

Automation is definitly a problem for workers. I've been lucky enough to see the problem well enough in advance to move on to something else, but it's something I have to keep being vigilant about.

It's difficult to get by on minimum wage nowadays, and it's difficult to even get a minimum wage job in the first place, so if automation is allowed to increase, I think governments need to start implementing basic income programs. Hell, I think they need to start implementing them right now. It's only going to get harder and harder for people to get meaningful employment, and for people who have minimum wage jobs, their quality of life is quite typically crap. Once basic income programs start being implemented, then I actually support the further growth of automation.

People want jobs because they want to be able to live and get by, but realistically, how many people actually want to work? Not a lot. The ones who do want to work typically want to do the kinds of work that can't be replaced by automation. That's why I support replacing unskilled, minimum wage labor with socially subsidized basic income and automation.