In lieu of an economic system that redistributes gains in productivity, arguable anyone involved in automation SHOULD be "working" less and less. If your job duties are fulfilled by a weekly bash script , and you were hired to perform those duties weekly, i dont see why you shouldnt be paid for delivering the work and reap the reward of spending that time on personal projects / charity / hobbies

Also like others said passive processing - chewing on an issue for 4 days and having the breakthrough in 20 minutes - if you only were paid for the 20 minutes it would be completely unsustainable, you would constantly grind and not recieve the rewards for that exponential (and humanly impossible) rise in productivity