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"Automation" has ALWAYS been about disenfranchising skilled workers, not actually eliminating labour. The luddites were not fighting against machines that made cloth autonomously, they were fighting factories that could make cloth staffed by enslaved children and desperate poor. Its always just an excuse to shift work toward precarious emplyment by people who can be more easily exploited for higher profit.