I can certainly agree to that sentiment; we are not moving forward as a society if we artificially preserve jobs for the sake of the job itself.
However, the theme of this article seems to be "Automation came to Amazon and no jobs were lost, so don't worry about that pesky automation issue!", which seems blatantly misleading. While new jobs like robot maintenance will be created, I can imagine they will only be a small portion of the jobs that were replaced, and that is going to leave a lot of people unemployed and even potentially unemployable. That is an issue we certainly need to acknowledge and discuss.
However, the theme of this article seems to be "Automation came to Amazon and no jobs were lost, so don't worry about that pesky automation issue!", which seems blatantly misleading. While new jobs like robot maintenance will be created, I can imagine they will only be a small portion of the jobs that were replaced, and that is going to leave a lot of people unemployed and even potentially unemployable. That is an issue we certainly need to acknowledge and discuss.