Amazon's robot store is why Trump won
Actually, that’s not true. James Comey's ego is the most direct factor in Trump’s win, followed by Putin's hacker army, but for those who insist on going to the “white working class feeling hopeless” angle, then yeah. This. This is the wellspring of that problem.
Call it Amazon.com’s driverless store.
The tech giant has built a convenience store in downtown Seattle that deploys a gaggle of technologies similar to those used in self-driving cars to allow shoppers to come in, grab items and walk out without going through a register.
Amazon is planning up to 2,000 of these stores. If their automation system works, don’t expect them to be alone. There are over 150,000 convenience stores in the United States, employing 2.3 million Americans. What Amazon is doing isn’t a threat to those jobs, it’s a promise. Those jobs are going away. So are the 1.7 million jobs to be replaced by driverless trucks.
Obviously, a single store still in testing and a few test trucks wandering the nation’s highways weren’t actually responsible for Trump’s victory. In fact here’s a far more accurate headline: