This is exactly the discussion I’ve been trying to have with people as well. Same issue is what caused the “family farm” to struggle in the 80’s hard to compete with automated GPS controlled machines working on thousands of acres when your using manual machines on hundreds of acres.
The basis of patent timing was original based on the premise that it took approximately 17 years to train an apprentice and therefore the apprentice would be one of the first after the initial inventor to be able to utilize a new technology-giving the inventor productivity advantages over competitors during that time period, but no over the new apprentice beyond that period.
This is why inflation is such a double hazard - we should through technology be seeing production deflation by definition through efficiency. Instead we not only see a maintenance in price, but an increase.
So, lots of unemployment, while food and other stuff goes up in price. Bad situation for the underclass, and probably the middle class. Sadly, a lot of people will demand more socialism as the solution.
I'm not really sure what the solution is. But I think we have a problem.