there’s a lot of robotics work going on behind the scenes, and a lot of the things that the middle-class do in their day-to-day are being attacked here.

If you get behind the scenes of a big retail company like Amazon or Nike, you get a certain increased amount of automation in the manufacturing and physical sorting. But this isn’t happening absent human labor. It’s happening in concert with human labor.

The end result is humans expected to work at the speed of machines, rather than humans off-loading the physically intense tasks to machines.