As a child I remember reading one of stories of Stanislaw Lem on where robots did all the work mass producing goods trying to find markets for them. It ends wi

As a child I remember reading one of stories of Stanislaw Lem on where robots did all the work mass producing goods trying to find markets for them. It ends with replacing humans with crystals. (so a combination of paperclip problem and automatization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Diaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Diaries (1958!)