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Self check out was created as a way to reduce labor costs in stores allowing them to maximize profits.
It's also a way to decrease the amount of labor required to produce an essential service, which is good. Might as well complain about the combine harvester killing jobs in the agrarian sector. Do you want to work as a field hand who harvests grain with hand tools? Hell, do you actually want to work as a cashier?
If stores exploit the lower costs, that's entirely on our societies failing to distribute wealth properly or have even a semblance of a functioning market. Don't blame technology for that.
If they manage to make my shipping experience faster and more convenient while saving money I'm not gonna bitch too much.
Sometimes technology makes a job obsolete. Not many milkmen or stablehands these days either, and society isn't worse off because of it.
You're not wrong