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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Who manufactures/sells/installs/maintains Walmart's self-checkout machines? Who trains people to manufacture/sell/install/maintain the self-checkout machines that Walmart bought? Who helps the customer having trouble with the self-checkout machine at Walmart? Who trains the Walmart employee how to help customers having trouble with the self-checkout machine ar Walmart? Who monitors the self-checkout machines at Walmart to make sure someone isn't smuggling merchandise through without payng for it?
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Most of the support is probably done by one person whose main job is to do something else, like refilling or some such.
With regard to manufacturing and creating those machines, yes, there are new jobs, but they are on a much higher level than the jobs that disappear.
OK, if you use drones to deliver packages, you eliminate the mailman, but get jobs in the fields of creating drones. Said mailman can probably never work there, because if he could, he would probably have done so already.