The left is not pushing automation in any form, period. Automation will replace low skilled workers only as long as regulations keep minimizing the delta for ROI. Once it gets close enough, the leap can be made because the ROI always accelerates once the automation is in place.
The establishment is in the business of buying votes to augment their political power stranglehold over the Serfs. We are less than 4 months away from having that chance to wrest that power away back to those who truly own it. Then we will have the chance again to keep it.
One cannot guarantee a return on investment if it is something the public may reject. And of course, too many people out of work equals no returns; the government cannot sustain the living of non-workers indefinitely. States still do fail.