You say that as if companies aren't already trying to automate away as many positions as possible every time there's an opportunity to do so.
If you're old enough, you might remember when self-serve gas pumps didn't exist and a gas station would have a few employees to handle pumps. Now self-serve is the norm in all but a couple of places in the country.
Retail businesses keep attempting to move to self-checkout only, even people hate them and they allow more theft to occur.
We have a whole raft of employers eliminating workers and trying to replace them with ChatGPT.
There's a reason stock prices go up every time a company announces a major layoff of their workforce and it's got nothing to do with the quality of life for the remaining workers.
Corporate profits have been soaring, but none of those profits is going into paying for workers or reducing their hours. Instead, we see employers laying off employees and pushing for longer hours from fewer employees. Virtually all profits go to the already wealthy C-suite and stock owners (and don't kid yourself about 401k programs, those hold less than 10% of the available stock; the rest is owned by the wealthy).