When I made this point to my stepfather as a child, he got indignant, claiming that I was saying that the jobs getting replaced 'weren't good enough' and the pe

When I made this point to my stepfather as a child, he got indignant, claiming that I was saying that the jobs getting replaced 'weren't good enough' and the people who did them 'didn't deserve jobs'. The point is that not everyone will understand that the shifts are gradual, and that we're not going to sack thousands of convenience store clerks and simultaneously hire thousands of vending machine technicians because the technicians 'deserve' jobs and the clerks don't.