I have been hearing this for a long time now, "automation will take away lot of jobs", I don't understand the people who make such statements. Do they realize h

I have been hearing this for a long time now, "automation will take away lot of jobs", I don't understand the people who make such statements. Do they realize how much manual work is done in projects in even the biggest companies? Do they realize that the internal tool which caused AWS downtime last month was not built in one go, it was built eventually, that's why it is hardly perfect. If we move to a more automated env where we have high quality softwares like the author mentions, it'll just enable us to deliver projects faster, bring better software in the world. Plus, who is going to build these automation tools? surely every company is going to have a different requirement, considering that for the last 30yrs we haven't yet discovered how to build OTC softwares, where the main software is a generic one which can be customized across domains, it remains to see the "automation scare" and who'll sell robots who do everything that humans do. Plus, I don't know why this doesn't get discussed, the day we have a general AI which can think for itself, why would it work for us?