I don't know when I first noticed it, but at some point I realized that fully-automated economies aren't just inevitable, they're NATURAL. Ever since we first used a stone tool to make it easier to kill an animal for food or cut down fruits, we've been progressing towards a point where it was most efficient for our tools to do all our labor.

In fact, it's beautifully elegant how the simple rule of "create more efficient tools to survive" can explain just about everything about human evolution from the days when we were Ardipithecus all the way up to the complexity explosion of civilization as of the present. It's like how, by repeating a single circle over and over again slightly different, you can create an incredibly complex image.

The history of humanity can succinctly be described as "using tools to maximize prosperity with as little energy as possible."

I'm not surprised.