[jtolmar]

I threw that part in there because I was expecting someone to confuse themselves into thinking there's no motivation for progress under such a system.

Under the hypothetical, even if you want your current level of pay, you may want to automate yourself out, because that frees you up to spend your time on some other job, getting both paychecks.

(And if you really didn't want to have your job automated away... well it still works out better for you than our system of firing you and then nothing.)