We’re talking about sold items no longer being manufactured. Doesn’t matter where things are manufactured when they AREN’T manufactured. China didn’t have anything to do with the death of music stores, or software stores. The fact that those industries basically stopped selling physical good killed the stores.
Raw material will be slugs of some sort. Maybe even recycled, put your crap in one side get new stuff out the other.
Most jobs as defined today didn’t exist years ago. Just because a job disappeared doesn’t mean that employee never worked again obviously. You blamed high unemployment on automation and I disagree. I think it has more to do with jobs moving to India and China than it does automation.