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>luddites have always been wrong.
I'm not a luddite, retard.
You are correct insofar as increases in efficiency have led to increases in productivity. Which have led to increases in material standards, and made businesses more competitive. But not only are you ignoring the role of finance, but you are misunderstanding the process of history.
Historically, 90% of the population were farmers because that's how many laborers were required. As farming became more productive(2-field system to 3-field system, selective-breeding of crops, irrigation, fertilizers, etc) you needed less laborers to produce the same amount of food. Then with the invention of the tractor, and other labor-saving machines, the need for labor fell even more.
But this on its own cannot increase GDP. What labor-saving did was "free" labor to do other things. As farm labor needs declined, people began to move into the cities, and worked in manufacturing, services, etc.
So yes, automation(human labor-saving machines) CAN increase the GDP, but only if those laborers do something else, and thus maintain their income, or increase it(by doing things of greater value, see industry/technology/etc). Replacing 40% of the labor-force with machines CANNOT increase the GDP on its own. And would have such a disruptive effect(in the short-term), that it would actually crash demand, and asset prices. These things need to happen gradually.
Furthermore, it's ironic that you mentioned social unrest, because high unemployment is what causes social unrest, not wasted labor.
So I honestly have no fucking idea wtf you're talking about.