If they are so hellbent on automating jobs as the population rises, how are a bunch of unemployed people going to buy their products?
Government will tax away the savings, skim off some, and pay the remainder to the unemployed truckers who will have less but will be grateful to the government for paying them something.
The establishment thinks the truckers can be retrained as physicians or some other more rewarding job. In actuality, it will lead to more social decay but what the heck, the truckers are now captive voters for more government.