content: You may not have noticed if you're not following technology much, but this is the future and it's coming fast. Automation will begin to take over more and more jobs. For sure some countries will resist this change for the reason you mentioned, but in the end it's like a horse salesman trying to push back against automobiles. Eventually the entire store will be automated. You order and an AI cooks your pizza perfectly and exactly the same each time, boxes it, and delivers it. So why would the government enthusiastically back this? The country that ends up playing a leading role in automation is going to have valuable expertise and knowledge in something that will become ubiquitous in the world. It could also attract other companies who'd like to setup test operations there but are legally impaired in other countries. For instance US officials recently argued that driverless vehicles must still have a functioning steering wheel and standard driving ornamentation and there's probably going to be a pretty big fight over things like self driving taxis, yet New Zealand already has driverless delivery vehicles. It gives them a chance to become a world leader in what will be an entirely new and revolutionary paradigm.