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This is fundamentally linked to misunderstanding of what automation is and does, within the U.S.
Automation, if you are doing it correctly, does not eliminate workers, it simply changes what they are doing and how they are doing it. What automation does is two things, the first is that it mitigates exposure to the four D's (Dull, Dirty, Dangerous, Dear).
The second, and much more important thing is that automation allows you to increase your quality (the consistency of your process, how close does each product resemble each other), which then, over time (usually much faster than training someone to do it) can be used to improve your functionality (how well the part actually does its job).
What this means is you can use workers that would be one a line doing whatever, and move them into quality control, with improves your ability to improve functionality, etc. etc.