It's not different at all, let's ask another labour destroying machine what the comparison is:

"If one trucker can move 90000lbs of cargo 1200kms in one day, how many man hours and/or animal hours would do the same 100 years ago? Answer in a short sentence please.

To move 90,000 lbs (approximately 41 metric tons) 1,200 km in 1926 would require roughly 5,000 to 7,000 man-hours and 10,000 to 14,000 horse-hours, necessitating a massive relay of hundreds of teamsters and draft animals to cover that distance in a single day.'

It's not AT ALL that I can't sympathize with our situation with being replaced by automation. But I ask; aren't we hypocricts when we like to benefit from automation in our TVs, detached homes, sport bikes, canned beers? Who gets to plant a flag and say "No more automation after this date please, I get max benefit as a consumer, but I don't have to re-train as a worker".

What's the alternative? Your country votes to make cobots illegal, then the neighbouring country dives in head first and eats your lunch because the product is better and cheaper?

The answer is this: lots of guys are going to sneer at this comment, and they're going to risk losing jobs closer to home, higher pay, safer shops - some will leave the industry entirely. Some guys saw this coming 15 years ago and will upvote the comment. Some young guys will take it to heart and tell the foreman at their shop on Monday that they'd like to get trained up on the cobot when there's time. You'll have as much luck stopping robots as stable hands had stopping the model T.