The problem with this line of thinking is that the cost of the transition is pushed onto the employee. Automation is a huge gain for the company while the emplo

The problem with this line of thinking is that the cost of the transition is pushed onto the employee. Automation is a huge gain for the company while the employees whose work got automated need to pick up new skills themselves on their own time and cost. No one in their right mind wants to spend their senior years getting retrained and then having to compete with new grads. Ask yourself - would your boss be willing to hire a 60 year old programmer that spend most of his life doing something completely unrelated?