Boxing clever

I see that Puma are discontinuing the use of shoe boxes. Instead they will have a "clever little bag" I think they call it. This will of course be much more enviromentaly friendly than chopping down trees.
While I applaude the effort to go green I must shed a tear for the amazing shoe box.
It isn't just for shoes, it can be a doll house, a theatre, a camera, storage for old love letters, recipes, baby photos. Need I go on, the uses are endless. The shoe box must rate as the number one example of how to recycle successfully.
Who makes the boxes? will they be out of work? Some years back while holidaying in Australia we went into covered parking where we paid a machine for the couple of hours our car was there.
"That's never going to happen in South Africa" I said "too many people need work so they'll never be replaced by a machine" I'm not such a good prophet am I?
The fact is, it is cheaper to employ a machine than a human. It works all the time, never goes on strike, never takes leave or asks for a raise. So sad.
The times they are achanging, if we want to save our planet we have to take bold steps like the ones taken by Puma but if we want to save our people we'll have to come up with something for them to do. In SA there are ladies who make the most amazing items out of old plastic bags, perhaps they can take old Puma bags and weave them into shoe boxes so that we still have somewhere to store our stuff.