I was standing at the self check-out at the grocery store the other day thinking about an article I read a couple of years back. It featured a short video and transcript of Bill Gates making the case for taxing the robots. I noticed four check-out stations staffed by a single employee. On a busy afternoon in the past, those four stations would need at least four dedicated people and up to four more people diverted from the produce or grocery departments to bag the items, to operate. Automation has impacted up to (or at least) three jobs at that grocery store and the market is trending toward losing more jobs, as I highlighted in a blog post earlier this summer.
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