I wouldn't blame r/antiwork for an increase in automation. Companies when thinking of whether to automate will look at consistently low decreases in unemployment figures, other sectors adding jobs to the economy in the meantime to ease social unrest, and fuck knows what other related numbers to make the decision to automate their factories. Businesses won't do it all at once. The Antiwork subreddit will still be a scapegoat for the media to justify automation, but if it didn't exist media would do something like unironically take pictures of a retired grandma on medicare to dig up the welfare queen debate again. They would figure something out.