Why hire people when you can cut costs by 100x and deliver more stuff of higher build quality ?
However nobody except the owners benefit from automation (savings are profits), while slowly generating a huge unemployment problem outside the factory walls.
The governments or companies themselves should quickly step in - not just through some sort of universal income, but through making automation public.
In other words, robot schematics and software should become public and open source and companies should be highly encouraged (tax benefits etc) to open source all their software and build schematics.