Except people who work for telegram companies were able to get jobs at telephone companies, and rather easily at that.
Bezos just fired 30,000 people the other month at Amazon, and is planning to dump another 10,000. This is more upper level, as he's keeping the laborers.. for now. That, of course, will become increasingly automated as well.
It's a good thing the Trump is getting rid of all those illegals, because according to Elon Musk and others, in 10 years (ok, probably handful more than that) the only jobs you're going to be able to get are picking lettuce and mopping floors ... And as for the farm labor stuff, they're already experimenting with robots to do that, so good luck finding anything that doesn't involve scrubbing a toilet or working for sewer lines for a living.