Is there even a conversation? Perhaps only at the academic level by old-school Marxist types, or in politicking to effect event weaponization. The documentary

Is there even a conversation? Perhaps only at the academic level by old-school Marxist types, or in politicking to effect event weaponization. The documentary American Factory (2019) is a relatively recent human interest case study. Viewed in this light, automation generally acts as a fell-swoop solution to older approaches in businesses capable of making the required capital investment. In terms of a process engineering business case, you can rarely just fully automate one unit operation, because the benefits will be quashed by adjacent, older process. It makes far more business sense to go the whole way and automate everything.