I totally automate my roles on projects all the time so I can move on to more interesting things. I guess you mean that no one wants to be fired, but I don't see how that can result from automating one's work.
Also, I HATE doing repetitive things. Some people seem to like it though. To each their own, I guess. Reminds me of https://youtu.be/wNVLOuQNgpo
We all believe our job is so challenging and has such special requirements that it _can't_ be automated. It requires someone with the kind of experience learned with wisdom over a long time. Blah blah blah.
This makes it so that 1. my quality overall becomes better and my bosses always liked that (doing things per hand are more error prone, not on time etc.)
2. I can go on holiday knowing my company doesn't need me desperate
3. I can spend the free time of actually innovating and bringing more value to the company/product
The problem is not automating yourself out of a job but not being able to leverage the new gained capacity.
My way helped me succeed. I took my skills and my achievements (which i made in my R&D Time) to another company and got more money and than i did it again and got more money again.
Right. Presented with efficiency gains, firms tend to increase profit, not wages. One way to change that is to give workers more bargaining power through market shifts or unionization.
All the productivity gains are first transferred to the consumer(because of market dynamics) and then(by the market winners) to shareholders. The workers' wage market is not related to productivity but how the company is internally organized is linked to productivity.
