As a socially anxious person myself, I like the idea of not having to interact with a cashier, but I hate the idea that some rich guy is profiting off of killing jobs and putting the work on me to do, so I only use them if I have one or two items and there’s no line.

I don’t “want” my job either, but I do it to make a living. If local jobs disappear from the community so some rich guy can add another million dollars to his pile, that reduces the number of entry level jobs available locally to people getting into the job market with no safety net in place for them. Just so they can not pass the savings along to us.

Those self checkout lanes are only there so they can cut jobs while charging more for groceries.

Medium had an article exploring this a bit further, and while his tweet taken on its own does seem to endorse trump’s pick for assistant attorney general (and also some republican policies historically), the author concludes that it’s far more likely that he’s a liberal and just had praise for the one specific action as it relates to big tech vs little tech. https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e