I remember seeing a debate online during and post-COVID about automating service jobs with robots and AI and seeing people online doing the whole "Marx didn't predict this!!" routine. I'm like, Marx predicted it as close to someone in the 1800s possibly could have.

“Once adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the… automatic system of machinery… set in motion by an automaton, a moving power that moves itself; this automaton consisting of numerous mechanical and intellectual organs, so that the workers themselves are cast merely as its conscious linkages.”

And to that end:

Labour no longer appears so much to be included within the production process; rather, the human being comes to relate more as watchman and regulator to the production process itself… As soon as labour in the direct form has ceased to be the great well-spring of wealth, labour time ceases and must cease to be its measure.

This is literally what some Trump admin goon was saying on TV a few weeks ago. "Well the factories will have robots in them but we'll need people to maintain the robots!"

Marx caps that off with:

Capitalism thus works towards its own dissolution as the form dominating production.