I don't want the job, I want the output of the job. If I can have something else do the work and produce the output for me then I'll take that and spend my time doing things I care about.

Your boss wants the output of the job. If he can have something else do the work and produce the output for him then he'll take that and fire you. You will have no money.

My 'job' could be working for myself. I could be my own boss farming my land. But that shit is hard labour and requires heaps of attention, knowledge, and early mornings. Right now it's easier for me to work for someone else, take a slice of my output (in currency) from my boss and then use that to buy the stuff I really need; food, energy, clothing, and so on.

You see, if I can be self sufficient I don't need a job with a boss. My so-called job could be farming my land and I could use automation to make that basically trivial and escape the desk job that consumes nearly every waking hour of my adult life.

This is just one simplistic way of looking at what I am talking about. My overall point is that having a vision of using automation to free up fractions of your workplace dominated day is missing a trick. We should be finding ways of freeing up that 8hr a day time-suck. Automating menial chores around the house is a distraction from the real goal.