Does "increase their productivity" equate to increase their pay? In most cases that's a no unfortunately. It's up to the "automator" what they make of their tim

Does "increase their productivity" equate to increase their pay? In most cases that's a no unfortunately. It's up to the "automator" what they make of their time imho. If they're wasting time playing games it's their loss since these opportunities don't come by too often. If they use it to grow their knowledge and skills that's great and well earned since the company only expected them to do their workload, the hard way. And it's fair. And it is only not fair to the peers whose work cannot be automated, and as someone here said, it's a temporary privilege to be working in programming, we're in a different world, higher pay, more learning opportunities, more leverage than other jobs. But, nothing lasts forever. We're going to be automated away eventually.