When the first light bulbs hit the market, there was a grave concern about the future of workers that were employed by oil lamp and candle makers. However, electric light allowed night shifts at various factories which created even more work positions than earlier. A hundred years earlier in England, at the beginning of the industrial era, textile factory workers formed the Luddite movement and used to smash machines as they were afraid they would completely remove humans from the factory floors.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/robots-automation-will-a-robot-take-your-job