Amazon on Monday unveiled the latest plan to automate American workers out of existence

[suffragette]

59. Dire news for occupations with highest employment in the U.S.

This won't just be about Amazon built stores. Amazon will likely use these as proof of concept and license the technology to others.

They'll at least need security to monitor line coming into store and people coming out for payment.

Yet another area where security monitoring becomes an everyday dominant experience.

More money for CEOs and more financial insecurity for a large number of citizens.

For employees currently at Amazon who are testing this, their job, health care and now grocery purchases are all maintained by the company that employs them. How will Amazon use/abuse this data?



http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/retail-salespersons-and-cashiers-were-occupations-with-highest-employment-in-may-2015.htm

Retail salespersons and cashiers were occupations with highest employment in May 2015
MARCH 31, 2016
Retail salespersons (4.6 million) and cashiers (3.5 million) were the occupations with the highest employment in May 2015. Combined, these two occupations made up nearly 6 percent of total U.S. employment. Annual mean wages were $26,340 for retail salespersons and $20,990 for cashiers. Office and administrative support was the largest occupational group, making up nearly 16 percent of total U.S. employment. Annual mean wages for workers in this group were $36,330.


Employment and annual mean wages for largest occupations, May 2015
Occupation Employment Annual mean wage Percent of total employment
Retail salespersons
4,612,510 $26,340 3.3%
Cashiers
3,478,420 $20,990 2.5
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
3,216,460 $19,710 2.3
Office clerks, general
2,944,420 $31,890 2.1
Registered nurses
2,745,910 $71,000 2.0
Customer service representatives
2,595,990 $34,560 1.9
Waiters and waitresses
2,505,630 $23,020 1.8
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
2,487,680 $27,840 1.8
Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive
2,281,120 $35,200 1.7
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners
2,146,880 $26,180 1.6
General and operations managers
2,145,140 $119,460 1.6
Stock clerks and order fillers
1,934,060 $25,940 1.4
Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
1,678,280 $42,500 1.2
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
1,580,220 $38,990 1.1
First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers