Machines do not complain and ask for a pay raise,no vacations or healthcare
And machines do not buy products, serve their country, help one another, raise children etc etc You have a point. I estimate in 100 years or less ( about 1/2) the time of the industrial revolution from 1800-2000) robots, computers and advanced machines will do the majority of all work. unless there is a social and economic change there will be NO JOBS OR INCOME FOR ANY HUMAN but since corporations are people they can buy and sell to each other. ever see Star Trek? everything is provided by replicators and the only Capitalists in the universe are the greedy ferengi, whose sacred text is rules of acquisition and their only 'sin' is failure to make profit
That's like blaming cars for the demise of the buggy industry. Technology will invariably move forward. Workers need to recognize the handwriting on the wall and get educated in career fields and skills for the future... not sit around and complain because they have become an anachronism.
Actually Unions protect jobs from being taken away due to automation by forcing the company to train employees to operate new equipment. When jobs are given to robots or shipped overseas, that would be the very essence of capitalism.
To some degree - higher costs and more headaches associated with labor makes automation more cost effective. However, keep in mind that fear of technology and automation has been around since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Critics (look up Luddites) claimed that new machines would destroy/impoverish the working class and benefit only the capital owners. What happened instead? A period of increasing living standards for the working class unrivaled throughout HUMAN HISTORY.
That is called innovation and has nothing to do with unions.
