[delfinom]

Pretty much guaranteed. The goal of modern automation isn't more people it's less. People love to spout "but the industrial revolution just made people able to do more jobs". But the goal of modern automation is to _replace all jobs_ that it can.

Then you hire 4 guys to maintain all the automation between 5 factories they drive between as needed.

[colechristensen]

Yes, that's what civilization -> industrialization -> automation does: eliminate jobs, which opens up opportunities for new jobs.

you are no longer an animal spending most of your waking life searching for food, nor do you build your own shelter, make your own clothes, construct tools, etc

yes, automation seeks to eliminate factory jobs, most of them are pretty awful anyway. this opens up new options as every step along the way always has

and yes, the change isn't always easy for the folks that have to find something new