While businesses should have the freedom to automate, this does point towards serious structural problems with labor laws, regulations, healthcare laws, tax laws, and minimum wage laws. Seems to me that governement makes it so expensive for businesses to employ people that automation becomes feasible.
Well production does not require anywhere near as many people as it used to - but consumption sure does. Robots don’t buy much, even on Amazon. :)
Money goes where money grows......always.