&gt;It may also be a bit early, as automation isn&#x27;t in its stride yet.<p>I&#x27;m curious as to how you would judge whether or not automation is efficient enough to do this?<p>Buckminster Fuller, former president of the Mensa society, argued that we passed that invisible line back in the 1970&#x27;s:<p>&gt;In technology&#x27;s &quot;invisible&quot; world, inventors continually increase the quantity and quality of performed work per each volume or pound of material, erg of energy, and unit of worker and &quot;overhead&quot; time invested in each given increment of attained functional performance. This complex process we call progressive ephemeralization. In 1970, the sum total of increases in overall technological know-how and their comprehensive integration took humanity across the epochal but invisible threshold into a state of technically realizable and economically feasible universal success for all humanity<p>-Buckminster Fuller, Grunch of Giants, 1982