> The promise of automation was to have machines do the things we don't want to do, so humans could have more time to do things we enjoy. But why exactly shoul

> The promise of automation was to have machines do the things we don't want to do, so humans could have more time to do things we enjoy. But why exactly should that happen? By which mechanism? Every single company automates in order to increase their monopolies and profit, to generate more shareholder value. There exists no other mechanism, so obviously we will never do anything other than that.