technology

Genuine question - what happens to the workers who get replaced? I know in Western countries, we'd all be left jobless (leading to a crisis in capitalism). But even with this high a rate of replacement, it doesn't seem like China's going through an unemployment crisis or that the masses are resentful of the jobs they are losing. So something must be different. For a while I can imagine the workers fired from one plant can go to another, but given this has been a priority for the govt. for close to a decade at this point, there has to be something more substantial being done for the people. Are they in mass moving into the service sector? That cannot be sustainable solution. And I can't imagine agriculture itself isn't being automated either, if some are moving back to the villages. Others might move to higher-tier manufacturing that isn't replaced as of yet...but none of these feel like the solution. I'm just reminded of the fact that machines cannot produce value, only human labor can, and am just left wondering what's happening.