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> The implicit assumption you are making is that the demand increases in lock step with productivity gains.

This is basically the theory around modern industrial revolution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Efficiency increases demand more than the efficiency saves.

You could argue that labour does not follow that, but it is more about the technology improving rather than disrupting.



>Efficiency increases demand more than the efficiency saves.

That's not some sort of natural law.

People latched on to this hypothetical situation and keep elevating its universality.

It's just a thing that can happen and may or may not in a given instance.




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