Automation and all the wealth it creates exists because of capitalism. Automation does destroy some jobs, but it also creates new and better jobs to replace them.
If it wasn’t for automation of work we would still live in the Stone Age. Remember the Luddites? Every luxury you enjoy today is the product of refined automation.
Yes. 250 years ago most ppl worked in manual agriculture and produced very little. Today machines do most of the work overseen by a small number of people, yet much more is produced.