i used to also have thought experiments like "if you could automate Everything at what point have you actually just reduced the amount of Stuff That Happened down to nothing" and i did not arrive at any sort of serious conclusion (this was a daydream, not a thought piece) except that there Is a point where enough automation is the same as doing nothing at all, and it's funny that this too is something people are also thinking about now (though often with much more insane conclusions when coming from people who are sufficiently ai-brained, ala "nobody will have to work" in a system that considers subservience to capital more important than economic output anyway)