Consider tech jobs. When I was a kid there weren't any tech jobs... well, there was ONE company - (listed below). They had fewer than a hundred employees. In the fifties and sixties there was talk computers would replace everyone and destroy all our jobs.
The people who thought that were wrong.
Computers created jobs. Robotics will be the same - we're not at the end of invention and innovation - we're at the beginning. Robotics will create more jobs.
If people in the past had your outlook on innovation we'd still be using blacksmiths for our horse's shoes...
The first computer company
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm
The first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer. The company was later renamed to EMCC or Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and released a series of mainframe computers under the UNIVAC name.
I do not believe you! That could not have happened! Back then in 1949, and in the 1950s, they had a minimum wage that was actually “livable”! And all the experts here have weighed in that having “livable” minimum wage is a really really bad double-not-good thing! So that kind of thing that you posit happened simply could not have happened, right??? Because.Government.
Where the F have you been? They're crowding out Americans in the tech sector for 2 decades with H-1b work visas. It happened to me twice.