> Automation could be the new land. A wealthy "owning class" owns all the means of production (and less skilled labor) and has no incentive to open it up. Automation could lead to a small wealthy class, but a rapidly expanding lower class with little access to self-ownership of means of production.
This is basically Marx and the theory of capital, e.g already describing our world since industrialization.
This is basically Marx and the theory of capital, e.g already describing our world since industrialization.