For socialism to work requires that we become something other than human.
Automation and robots are "something other than human", however they are/will be able to do the most of work which humans had performed for millenniums.
If what you are saying is true, then why are we still moving from an opportunity society to a neofeudal society?
Corporations with greedy shareholders are pushing people here. But it won't last forever, sooner or later people will realize what is happening and reject this system.