I am not too worried about the "threat of automation", since there are literally tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people working in the public sector in my

I am not too worried about the "threat of automation", since there are literally tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people working in the public sector in my small country alone that could be automated away using twenty year old technology. But the public sector doesn't care primarily about ROI; they care about keeping their budgets growing every year. Since the public sector also strongly dislikes increased unemployment, nothing happens.