“To kind of cling to an old model just because it involves workers is not something that companies and others are set up to do,” he says.
Is Change Inevitable?
Our good friend we mentioned earlier, Tom Eburne, has a wife who has also never used a self-checkout machine in her life. She says she believes it’s not right to automate a job that is meant for actual human workers. However, she does realize that this technological change that is in the near future may not be able to be kept off for long.
Despite this realization, the Eburnes plan to continue their resistance to using these machines. “Maybe the little we do makes no difference at all,” Tom’s wife says. “But we like to stand by what we believe in.”
