> I find this idea pretty interesting. That the amount of jobs stays the same even though robots do more and more of the stuff humans did in the past. The poin

> I find this idea pretty interesting. That the amount of jobs stays the same even though robots do more and more of the stuff humans did in the past. The point is that if the use of robots enables lowering the cost of online shopping, then more people can afford to shop online, and Amazon might even need to hire more people, to keep up with increased demand. It's the simple case of an innovation increasing productivity (less work hours per unit of product produced), which means they can lower prices, and -- possibly -- gain customers. If the increase in sales offsets the increase in productivity, then no workers need to be laid off. Of course, this isn't necessarily the case. An increase in productivity can lead to both layoffs, hiring and neither.