US retailers may replace 7.5 million sales clerk jobs with automation in the next 10 years.

I refuse to use self-checkout machines in stores, but I do more than just avoid them. When I pass those machines, I shout, "If you use those machines, you are putting Americans out of work!" Then I go to the human sales clerk.

If I have to wait for the sales clerk, that's ok. I always have a book to read. (I don't go out without a book and a computer.)

Please join me in doing these things. It's not too early to push back against socially harmful automation.

Of course, buying on line is even worse, and it records in a data base who you are and what you bought. You can join me in rejecting that too.