I don’t literally think of this every night. I was exaggerating and should have been more clear about this statement not being literal.

I’ve never actually ended my day wishing for automating everything. But it is an ideal that I would like.

I wouldn’t be tossed aside from automating my own business as I own it and no one could toss me aside. There’s not a requirement that I have an employer.

So I don’t think automating all my work away means I won’t have a purpose any longer. I think it will lead to more interesting and meaningful work.

I could be wrong but I’ve automated hundreds, maybe thousands of processes over the years for various companies and it’s always led to me working on more interesting stuff.

I don’t think it’s cool or heroic, whatever that means, just part of fun problems that I get to solve.

My lack of worry is based on not having any control over the situation so instead focusing on other things. It’s just a reductive analysis that lets me think I don’t have to worry about it.

In the extremely small chance that it is possible to automate everything so that there’s no more work, I don’t have control over it. In hellscape mode, that sucks and is not fun. In UBI mode that’s great. Either way, it’s not affecting my decisions today. I certainly don’t wish for the negative outcome or relish it’s potential.

I think your revulsion may be due to misunderstanding some of my motivations.