Conservatives who think every consideration necessary is only about “capitalism” are refusing to admit that we are in a point of creative destruction not seen in previous “industrial revolutions”, which is the destruction of jobs by technology advancement is now greater than how many new jobs it is creating, directly and indirectly combined. It would be fine if the population was in a free fall decline, but it’s not.
Such claims were made with the invention of the harvesting combine and the cotton gin.
You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. Every jump in tech lowers the amount of work necessary to keep society at a certain comfort level (generally higher than previous). Yes this wave will probably be very destructive to jobs, but that can be a good thing if we figure out how to work with it. It really depends on how we adjust to the concept of quite simply not needing the majority of people to do any kind of work.