> enough wealth was redistributed through violent means.
there were no instances of violent redistribution of wealth that ended better for the average person than before. Only that a different group of people ended up with wealth.
Automation makes stuff cheaper, even for people who didn't obtain any of the financial wealth via redistribution - because there's more than just financial wealth that get created with automation. New availability of services and goods (think internet of today - this is a wealth that couldn't have existed before, and one can benefit from it even if they are poor today).
In the past, fast automation has led to badly distributed wealth, and job loss. This situation has lasted until the unemployable people died off (yep, that was part of it), and enough wealth was redistributed through violent means.
Today we know better, and have really no reason to repeat the violent means of our previous revolutions. But it's really looking like the people in power want to repeat them.