text: The auto industries inflated wages and benefits have driven a huge automation push.   Car plants that used to employee thousands have been replaced by automated plants that now employee only hundreds of humans.
  
  If the progressive concept of a livable minimum wage is realized there will be financial incentive to cut the number of employees and replace them by robots.   Rather than having thousands of grape pickers for example,  we will have hundreds getting a livable wage looking after the automated grape pickers.