One problem with automation is that the people in upper management themselves rely on having lots of people to manage. Getting rid of those people puts their ow

One problem with automation is that the people in upper management themselves rely on having lots of people to manage. Getting rid of those people puts their own position and standing at risk. Also, we don't yet have humanoid robots with full feature-parity to actual humans, so automating some jobs might require a change of process to convert it to one that is amenable to automation - in doing so, it may arise that the entire process is pointless and this would obsolete the jobs of a lot of paper-pushers, raise an uncomfortable question and ultimately be a politically unpopular move. A second problem is that non-tech companies lacking competent in-house technical expertise will always choose to outsource it to a shitty consultancy which will take advantage of them, waste years and not deliver anything viable or cost-effective in the end.