We enjoy many luxuries unavailable even to billionaires only a few decades ago. For this trend to continue, the same thing needs to happen in other sectors that happened in (for example) the agricultural sector over the course of the 20th century: replacement of human workers by mass automation and superior organization.
Suppose you want to have your car washed. Hiring someone to do that will most likely give the best result: less physical resources used (soap, water, wear of cloth), less wear and tear on the car surface and less pollution and optionally a better result.
Still the benefit/cost equation is clearly in favor of the machine when doing the math, even when using more resources in the process.
What is lacking in our capitalist economic system is the fact of hiring people to perform services is punished by much higher taxes compared to using a machine, which is often even tax deductible. That way, the machine brings only benefits to the user of the machine (often a more wealthy person), less much to society as a whole. If only someone could find a solution to this tragedy.
Well, someone earlier in the thread said to abandon Marxist thought because it's obsolete. So I don't know how to help you!
We did. Save up a few bucks, nothing out of reach, and (as you suggested yourself!) you can afford to buy your own machine.
You'd have received no such largesse from the Marxists. You're welcome.
You can keep shoehorning lazy political slurs into everything you post, but the reality is going to hit the working class, not privileged programmers casually dumping 6 grand so they can build their CRUD app faster.
But you're essentially arguing for Marxism in every other post on this thread, whether you realize it or not.
Perhaps other sites beckon.
I say it will be a Good Thing. "Work" is what you call whatever you're doing when you'd rather be doing something else.
If that were true they wouldn't be building ultra secure bunkers to escape to when the climate shit hits the fan.
Anecdotally, around two people in a hundred in my proximity are preppers as well, though obviously with smaller budgets.
It is just a specific fringe way of thinking.
In the ideal case, we won't be dependent on the unwilling labor of other humans at all. Would you do your current job for free? If not -- if you'd rather do something else with your productive life -- then it seems irrational to defend the status quo.
One thing's for certain: ancient Marxist tropes about labor and capital don't bring any value to the table. Abandon that thinking sooner rather than later; it won't help you navigate what's coming.