You are making excellent points! I wish we could spread these ideas to the mainstream. THere is a lot of fear of automation and A.I. Personallly I believe that we are heading for a post-scarcity world. And I hope for a world without money,because I don´t see the need for the monetary system with it´s profit maximation which does not take ecological values into consideration.
There will be some tasks to do for humans still,mainly therapy,teaching,music and arts. All the places where they sell things now could be converted to places to hang out,listen to live music,etc.
Am I a dreamer? Yes. Can dreams come true? Yes.
Agreed -- I don't even get into "can/should automation be prevented" arguments any more. Instead, the question we should ask ourselves should be: Taking automation for granted,how can we use it to benefit all of humanity?
Unfortunately, most people don't seem to think that far, instead getting stuck at either "automation will be the death of us all" or "automation is great and will solve all of our problems". Neither of these is likely to be true -- unless we actively work to make the latter a reality. In and of itself, automation is value-neutral; it's up to us to employ it for good.