[aminok]

There are other factors at play in an economy besides automation, like forcible income redistribution. That the rich are benefiting from automation while the rest are not could be due to one of these extraneous factors.

>and how much thanks to the fall of colonialism over the past century.

It has to do with massive economic growth, and economic growth is really just a measure of automation. The wage growth accelerated after the fall of Communism, as market institutions gained strength.