>"There needs to be a "what stage of grief are you in" question."

There's a different level of acceptance that embraces this stuff and just leans into it. The grief is still there, but I'm working through the depression and into this stage. Accepting that you've been pushed from a craftsman to a machine operator really sucks. But machine operator is still a job, even after machines get really efficient. Maybe some people can still hang on to their artisanal workshop existence for high value small batch goods. But most of us will just have to make that move to the industrialized model or fall into redundancy.