Not missing anything. If automation, nobody cares who gets what. Sure there's still a line for goods, but why turn the machine off at all? It doesn't 'cost' anybody anything to leave the yacht machine running all the time.
Humans are still monkeys. They won't magically shuck off human nature in time for you have it easy.
And those who most ardently feel differently that everyone should share will use the rhetorical tactics that provoke the opposite of the desired reaction. We already see that with some of the wedge issues.
> but why turn the machine off at all?
Because they can. Because they want to. To prove that they can. To make you get off your mooching ass. To help you by forcing you to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. By reinventing racism and pretending that they are another species. For shits and giggles. To usher in the end times. To prevent the end times from ever occurring. To see what will happen. To see if anything will happen. Because they don't care. Because they never noticed.
I could list hundreds of reasons, all of which will be at least partly true.
You'll still starve, even if you die knowing the "whys".
