This is a ridiculous way of looking at things. I worked in automation for decades. If my company gets a new contract, and we set up a new line that would have required twice as many workers 25 years ago, no one can point at it and say they "lost their job" to the robots...but the humans were replaced by robots nonetheless.

The problem with our society is that we aren't distributing the gains from automation. Filling our workforce with robots shouldn't be cutting the number of people employed, it should be cutting the hours everyone has to work for the same pay.