Beside i opted it as only one of the possibilities , the question of transition period is open. The point i was trying to make is it is not impossible task.
Anything is possible if you know how to achieve it.
Automation by definition means as low labor as possible and application of technology.
You are falling to the same trap again. It looks as if you are rephrasing Stalin.
(I don't like USSR analogies but this one was worth mentioning.) I've been thinking the same thing since I was a kid, but thinking it is nothing. Stalin screwed up big time trying to achieve that very same goal, because of the very same mistake.Cynicism aside, you are making three leaps at once. You assume that we know how to automate and we don't do it. You assume it is economically feasible to automate but we don't do it. And finally you assume it will be socially feasible to automate. I think all of these are partially true. But I don't have anything substantial to back it up, do you? Again, looks as if your assumptions follow your conclusion, and not the other way around.