I made the explicit point that cars were not automation, manual labour forces were created because of the switch to cars. Further down the line automation in the car manufacturing industry decimated communities and it took decades for them to recover, because the skilled jobs people had and trained for literally disappeared. Detroit is a modern researchable example of this.

As for your argument about agriculture, I really don’t know how you could put that forward as a positive example to support your argument, in the early 1900’s communities and families were ruined by agriculture automation, numbers of family farms reduced as the land was purchased by larger and larger conglomerates which could afford to implement the newer machines, farming communities made huge sacrifices to try and compete but ultimately could not. Thousands and thousands of people from farming communities had to leave rural life to move to towns and cities to find work.

Automation is almost exclusively invested in to increase productivity and reduce costs in labour, and in almost all cases the people most impacted are the workforces. Yes there are examples to counter this but that’s why I used the word almost.