What we should've been doing from the get-go is utilizing automation to shorten the workday. If you have 100 workers, and automation can take over half those jobs, we should've kept the 100 workers and had everyone work half the day with the same paycheck. Then there wouldn't be any concern about any of this stuff. Instead, what we did was allow the rich company ownership to cut the workforce, overwork the remaining workers, and use machines as raw profit. Of course, there are costs with operating machines, I'm not saying they're free, before some chucklehead thinks they have a gotcha. The point is automation has been used to help the rich get richer, instead of helping all of humanity, creating an idea that workers should fear technology instead of embracing it.