Putting commentary on things like this is always tricky. Reality is complicated and perspectives tend to be more impoverished. I think part of this is actually

Putting commentary on things like this is always tricky. Reality is complicated and perspectives tend to be more impoverished. I think part of this is actually a narrowing of gaps between middle classes in large cheap labour markets like China and the working poor in Europe and the US, mostly due to the rising middle class wealth in the former. A second major cause is progressing technology and culture. "Automotion" is not always this literal version of machines directly replacing humans. A website where you can renew your insurance, buy plane tickets, make a complaint or order a pizza is automation of a sort. It's not necessarily a self driving scooter deliver that pizza. This is harder to fetishize as an ideology. We are not replacing hand looms with steam powered looms. It's more like we decided to just be naked instead.