I'm not in favor of keeping jobs around just for the sake of keeping people employed. I am in favor of doing whatever it takes to financially support people wh

I'm not in favor of keeping jobs around just for the sake of keeping people employed. I am in favor of doing whatever it takes to financially support people whose jobs are being replaced by automation while they seek new work, though. Mindless retail jobs are not a career with a future in general, no matter how much you try and hold the tides back. Checking groceries is just absolutely tedious, soul destroying work and nobody should be forced to do it to make a living. I also don't have a very good opinion of grocery store unions, because by the time I was working at the grocery store, the union had caved repeatedly on contracts for new employees, so that the people who had been working there for decades had locked in all the best hours, and full time work and great insurance and a pension, while all the new employees were held to part-time hours with shit benefits and the worst hours, with absolutely no chance of ever moving to full time. This wasn't a case where eventually you'd have seniority and move up to the better contract. You were locked into your tier forever once you were hired. (I say this as someone who spent several years working as a grocery clerk, checking groceries and stocking shelves, and whose father and grandfather both spent their entire careers working at grocery stores.)