“As automation does more, we demand more”
Okay another ancillary topic, how much do we waste making more instead of making better? Example, what is the number of new cars made every year that go unsold and sit in lots indefinitely. I have seen pictures of acres upon acres of them. More is not always better. Extrapolate that to clothing, dry good, housewares etc... We waste more than we gain as opposed to when we were a demand market and did not mass produce junk only to sell 30-40% of the items, but we make it so cheap nobody cares.
I see this view every day. It is likely a picture of an import or export lot. The cars get sold. Do you really believe manufactures continue to make products no one buys and just piles them up? Especially products that cost tens of thousands of dollars?
More is not always better. Extrapolate that to clothing, dry good, housewares etc...
It really seems you are getting off topic here. Maybe it isn't what you want, but reality is jobs change and people need to advance with it. If I tried to do my job, the way it was done when I first started, I would be unemployed. I would fall way behind and be fired. Automation has given me the ability to do the work of what 10 or so would do back then.
And the end result? We do more. Now the calculations and design I produce take in to account much more data and information and is produced in less time. My firm can do more work, our clients can afford to hire us for more work. Their production grows at a faster rate as well. The produce more at lower prices. Their buyers can produce products at lower prices, consumers get access to more products at lower prices, or more features.
I just don't understand people that expects technology to stop and never grow.