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by not2b 2270 days ago
If you are the one that creates life-changing automation, in most cases you've probably signed over your invention to the corporation that you work for, they give you a one-time bonus and get all of the rights. The owners then use the government to get a monopoly to use that invention, denying it to others. Automation takes capital to deploy effectively, and most of the rewards go to the owners of that capital, with relatively little going to the inventor.