This is a criticism of the USA's economic system, where we only give people money through _factor payments_ (exchanging money for labor) or _ownership of capital_.
It isn't actually a criticism of technology/automation!
In healthier countries, like the Nordics, they've organized their society so that automation, resource extraction, and really all success in business benefits their society as a whole rather than concentrating the wealth into the hands of the elite.
Having written that, I feel like I'm picking a nit, because what you said is true in the USA and I don't see it changing in my lifetime.
Norway is one of the very few democratic nations having a sizable sovereign wealth fund and a strong tradition of the responsibility of the state to take care of all of its citizens (partially because the natural conditions make survival without cooperation all but impossible). Out of all the top 20 SWFs [1], only four to six belong to healthy democracies, six if you count Turkey and the US as one - the rest are essentially grifting arms for the local rulers.
Everyone else barely has a SWF worth the name and almost all Western and Western-allied countries have fallen into the neoliberal/"lean government" trap.
Thats true but a sovereign wealth fund isn't the only way to link success of the country's businesses to the success of the people.
Using tax revenue to fund a social safety net, public works, education, and housing achieves the goal.
The sovereign wealth fund is more about what to do with the money between taxation and social works. If the country has a sovereign wealth fund without all the social spending then I'd say the success of the country's business hasn't been linked to the wellbeing of the people.
It isn't actually a criticism of technology/automation!
In healthier countries, like the Nordics, they've organized their society so that automation, resource extraction, and really all success in business benefits their society as a whole rather than concentrating the wealth into the hands of the elite.
Having written that, I feel like I'm picking a nit, because what you said is true in the USA and I don't see it changing in my lifetime.
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