Amazons new grocery store highlights a huge hole in Donald Trumps promise on jobs

[LisaM]

6. As a consumer, I can't support this.

I try to avoid the self checkout lines for the same reason. Same with the bank, I do a lot of my business in person.

We can't automate ourselves out of having jobs for people. And, I've worked in retail and I liked it. If the pay was better, I probably would have stayed a lot longer.

I also, by the way, miss the older cashiers at grocery stores who had been there for years, and had seen it all. They were people well cast in decent paying jobs, they seemed to enjoy it, and I liked the experience of interacting with them.

Aside from actual conditions which make interaction difficult (disability, agoraphobia, etc.), I don't understand the aversion to human interaction anyway. I was reading an article about GrubHub once (another company to avoid, BTW), and one user enthused that she could order, pay for, and have a meal brought to her "without ever seeing another human being!"

As long as we continue to embrace automation and avoid interaction, our world is going to get increasingly more splintered. I think part of the divide now is that we don't spend enough time with other people.