When you automate things you eliminate jobs. That is the key factor. Are you eliminating someone's work? Can they still be retrained? Greed is making money by d

When you automate things you eliminate jobs. That is the key factor. Are you eliminating someone's work? Can they still be retrained? Greed is making money by directly disrupting someone's livelihood. If technology creates new sectors of the economy by providing insight it is beneficial. Happiness is a construct and subjective. One might say happiness is going to a newly gentrified section of town and buying shoes made in Italy, another person my say that's crazy and prefer to keep rents low in town so local cobblers can afford to make basic shoes. The best definition is to ask people what they want, but usually people try to tell people what they should want.