You can look up what tends to happen when human labor isn't needed anymore by reading about the resource curse - that one is also about not needing human labor.

You can look up what tends to happen when human labor isn't needed anymore by reading about the resource curse - that one is also about not needing human labor. Only the least corrupt countries seem to be able to resist it. None of these countries have a very large population, so chances are that you don't live in one of them.