The vast majority of innovations in the capitalist system are about reducing human labor in a production process. It's always about more output for less input. Capitalism is so productive that communism cannot compete in terms of production, even when they force the workforce to work for free at gunpoint. We had the robots to remove the Western factory workers from their factories 50 years ago. Instead, a lot of this work went to China for the cheap labor, but even that is only temporary. The factories themselves are obsolete with so many humans inside them, even if they work for free. The labor shift is not about chasing profits via cheap labor. It's cheaper to operate automated factories here. The shift is about growing a Chinese middle class. Some Globalist objective.