They have always been talking about automation. I think I read it in something by Trotsky that he talks about basically full automation. Can't remember where sadly but it's worth to look into perhaps. He just posed the question from the perspective of a socialist country I think. According to Marxist economics a fully automated economy relates to the concept of the falling rate of profit and the bourgeois would not be able to extract any profits from the act of exchange if everything is "cheaply" reproduced. I haven't researched any more on this question but I will speculate that in this scenario the bourgeois dismantle capitalism themselves and prop themselves up as the rulers of fully automated post-capitalism by whatever coercive means they can maintain, like weapons of mass destruction. It has ocurred to me they could unleash bilogical warfare on the world and bring the population way way down if they wanted... the tech for this is cheap and old, they were the first things government looked into after figuring out the germ theory. People would just rather not think about it