Yeah that's the upside, for sure. I just think its interesting that automation is driven, at least in part, by minimum wages. Minimum wages are only justified by inflation - it wouldn't matter if someone was willing to work for less if, on one end, their savings held or gained value, or on the other end, the government didn't constantly need the devaluation of their debt. I should add unions to that - same reasons and effects as min wages. The need for inflation also justifies the violation of the free market via regulation - regulations are entry barriers for new companies, which prevents deflation from competition and drives up costs, which get passed along, and the resultant inflation reduces the real value of existing debt. The cost, however, is the wellbeing of the people - fewer jobs from fewer companies, which compounds in a negative way, preventing people from having the resources to invent new things or build new communities. The effect results in the crest of a wave, in the form of homelessness, abortions, failed marriages, people that would have existed not existing, suicides, drug abuse, nihilism, and I'd even argue things like churches losing the depth of their traditions - that's because any transaction carries the information of all transactions that preceded it, which can be viewed as the storage and transmission of energy, which is being stolen by the state. Our options for combating this are limited : using bitcoin is one strategy, but it will take time to accomplish its goals ; in the meantime, the silent genocide continues, so the other options are important - education and hiring people even though a machine can probably do it better. I'm not saying its rational in the current paradigm - its only rational as a strategy to change the paradigm.