Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer and fewer employees
This is this thinking of &quot;Automation reduces workforce&quot;. The next argument then is always &quot;We need Basic Income&quot; because of this.<p>But this is ignoring the fact that automation never replaced workforce as such. It moved the focus of the workforce. At the end more automation even required more workforce.<p>The thing is, you cannot engineer the process to be automated. You need to keep maintaining the automation. This includes not only daily maintenance, but also to keep up with obsolescence. You need to keep-up with new upcoming technologies of automation to replace your old once. But all this distracts and takes-away focus on the development of you product. So you need workforce to basically run your business, while you can still stay focused. But even then you can&#x27;t stay focused, because it is also your job to decide what newer automation processes to chose. As this will have an impact on your own product. That again takes away you focus for the development of you product. So again you need workforce to help you to stay focused. At some point you need workforce to manage your workforce namely HR.<p>So there is a cycle when you get more and more workforce so that you stay focused to develop your product.<p>All that of course assuming that you need to develop your product even further after launch.