You have quite an ego there, buddy. Phone operators are just as good as you, perhaps better (after all, they all went out and found other jobs).
Yeah, I don't have to hire 20 Java programmers to build my corporate web page any longer (due to advances in technology). That's good news for my company and for my clients, bad news for those 20 Java slingers.
Get over it. Technology introduces changes into the marketplace...even for technology workers (software or hardware).
Ego has NOTHING to do with it any more by saying that auto plant workers are not buggy whip workers ... and YOU know it ... BUDDY. You are just using the standard free traitor debate technique of avoiding the point and casting disparaging remarks. Chip designers jobs are NOT being phased out just shipped out.