You say no one ... Actually, I see a lot of you all saying this about farming .... Do you all live under rocks? You realize there are whole bustling industries of people wanting to go back to eating food produced in the exact opposite way than this frothy breathless Sci-Fi viewpoint.

I mean, I wonder if those who hold such views actually realize human beings aren't actually robots or aren't actually the "extras" in the Sci-Fi stories ...

You don't.

I grew up in a town where the dairy farms employed lots of people, as did the businesses that supported them. Most of those farms are gone or scaled back as dairy became an industrialized operation.

The guys who would be working as farm hands year round are now left with seasonal construction jobs and long winters of unemployment in nasty trailer parks. They lose their professional options and their dignity.

I think that we're wired to have a purpose, and not everyone identifies creative pursuits as fulfilling.

what if in such a world all production is owned by a tiny (say 100/1000) hypercapitalistic elite, and everything else is automated. Those people would wield more economic and thus political power than anyone else in history.

Humans would not have to work, but its a huge mistake to assume the elite will willingly share that prosperity.