Warehouse automation is forcing us to rethink what 'unskilled labor' really means, but I'm not convinced the shift is as straightforward as tech cheerleaders claim. Last year, my cousin lost his forklift job to an autonomous vehicle system, and retraining him for a maintenance role took eight months. Yet at my own factory, we can't hire enough technicians to keep the robots running—the skills gap is real. Should companies be required to fund retraining for displaced workers as part of adopting automation, or is that just a feel-good policy that slows innovation?