To my understanding this article is touching on the benefits of automation not being evenly distributed in society. In an ideal world I think it's possible to benefit society as a whole through automation. I have doubts this will be the trend anytime soon, but taking the profitability of machines and sharing it across all sectors is the way to go. In other words taxing the use of automation and using that money for universal pay or subsidizing industries where automation can't help. I do agree that currently that is not the trend at all and we have companies like Google sitting on billions of dollars, employing a very small subset of people. This would also not fly anytime soon in non progressive countries, although the idea of universal pay has been approached in many progressive countries already. We are probably in for some harder times before things improve.