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> when Amazon gets blamed for mass unemployment

That mass unemployment isn't going to happen. The US is going to have an immense labor shortgage over the next 20 years in fact, no matter what AI + robotics do. It's extremely simple math: low population growth (that will get worse) + modest immigration rate (that will get worse) + modest economic growth + large number of retiring workers = labor shortgage for decades to come.

Besides, Amazon is hiring hundreds of thousands of workers, while its chief labor competitor, Walmart, is simultaneously not slashing its 2.3 million employee base.