Automation is how humans prove they are smart.
Machines should work. Humans should think.
Over time, the boundary between working and thinking will shift in the direction of thinking. Thinkers will accelerate the shift.
Will there be affirmative action in Heaven?
Then you will have a room full of people who only live in their heads and not have the experience of “doing”. “Doers” understand how things work in the real world. What happens when the machine breaks down? Computers or machines go down and everything comes to a stop.