Christ, even for their preferred gay luxury space communism from Star Trek, surely they must have noticed that there is virtually nothing that even really looks like work, right? Art is purely recreational in a world of abundance, entertainment is self-sought because otherwise you are digesting sterile, lifeless products that have no human connection to you, that don't fill the void you try to fill in the first place. And beyond that, at a certain point, everyone who isn't a hardworking, self-motivated genius will see their job automated away.
One of the great features of Marxism that makes it so much more successful than all other brands of socialism to date is in fact its harsh determinism. What Marxism offers are not predictions, postulates, ideas--it offers cold hard facts. They emerge from our social world like the properties of electromagnetism from Maxwell's equations. This gives it the shiny, predictive veneer of science, and its eschatology of a better world to come after an inevitable tribulation lends it to the fervent cult belief structure of messianic Christianity.
Seeing automation take away jobs and disrupt the livelihoods of low skill workers should seem to socialists like Israel building the Third Temple in Jerusalem would to Rapture-happy Christians. It's happening! Just like in the book! The machine and its owner have come at last for the domain of work they had reserved for the professional-managerial class! The bourgeois are finally cutting their very legs of popular support out from under them! Now, now you can talk about how the workers of the world must unite, you're facing the same despair as a steel mill worker. No union can save you from the fact that you are now suboptimal by the mere fact of humanity. It's all coming true! And you have (for now) access to the very tools that you could use to emancipate yourself from toil! Even Lenin's apocryphal quote about the capitalists selling the rope you will hang them with, it's here! Do some fucking backflips and build some revolutionary companies and groups and get after it!
But they are fucking lazy, illiterate, cretinous, coombrained consoomers. Their only thought is about gibs, and not about politics. Their only yearning is to not be questioned or made uncomfortable.