You don't understand the purpose of automation. It is to take the human element out of the task. Whether for safety or economic reasons. Why would anyone pay large amounts of money to automate without taking advantage of the reason they did it.........no one is going to pay someone to sit home because there job was outsourced to a machine or any place else. Some unions have insisted and forced companies to do that but even they are loosing influence and power nation wide after forcing many companies out of busisness. It is every individual's responsibility to make themselves useful enough in society to extract a living. Government schools and training is available but if the individual does not take advantage of them, they are destine to live in poverty or on the street. The government can not and should not pay for your subsistence, its only job is to make education available for you to take advantage of.......nothing more.Assured income is pretty much guaranteed as automation takes over.