1. In any financial transaction, buyers will seek the lowest price possible. At the same time, sellers will look for the highest price possible.
2. An employment arrangement involves a "buyer" (the employer) and a "seller" (a worker).
3. One of the simple realities of an economy is that a worker will usually demand far more for his/her services than he/she would ever pay another worker for the same services.
Point #3 underlies almost every policy decision that is made by a government in a modern, advanced country like ours where labor costs are extremely high. It also underlies almost every business decision that is made by employers in this country, too. Automation is a natural response to a business climate where labor costs for one or more routine functions that can be replicated by a machine have gotten too high to make it practical to use human labor anymore.
No they don't. Quality matters.