You're basically arguing that businesses are run by people who can't compare numbers to each other.

If automation costs less, as it often does, then businesses will adopt it because it costs less, because lowering costs increases margins (or volumes, if the lower costs are passed on).

> Indirectly. Output directly increases from higher production capacity. Wishful thinking and consumer desire do not transform manufacturing without some changes to that manufacturing.

Not indirectly. If there is demand for 5000 cars at a given price and you suddenly gain the capacity to manufacture 10,000 cars at that price, you still aren't going to manufacture 10,000 cars unless you expect somebody to buy them. Having the capacity without the demand is nothing.

And having the demand without the capacity would only cause businesses to expand capacity, whether through automation or otherwise. If it was profitable to make 5000 cars by hand and there is demand for 10,000 cars at that price then they would just hire twice as many people to make them if nothing else.