That's assuming your employer will "move you up" and you'll make more money. Or that a future employer will see value in you automating your job. Then there's this story from TFA:
> a user posting as AcceptableLosses wrote, “They took what I had developed, replaced me with an idiot that they showed how to work it, and promptly fired me for ‘insubordination.’ I had taken a business asset that was making them $30 grand a year profit and turned it into a million dollar a year program for the company, and they fired me for it to save ~30 grand a year on my salary. Job creators my ass.”
Which sounds so entirely stupid as to be almost incredible. Why not just take this guy and move him, even sideways, to another role he can automate? But I believe him, because I've seen a lot of stupidity in Big Companies, especially the old school ones.
CS encompasses way more than automation. Graph theory, ADTs, complexity analysis (just by way of example) are all very relevant, even if the computation is done manually, by hand.
A lot of computer science presumes a very abstract computer; a human and a modern machine apply equally well.
And really, the existence of computers is the result of automating the job of human computers away. The entire history of computer science is this.
The difference is that these guys hit a local maxima, and just ... stop. Instead of moving up to the next level and making more money.