Until such machines can regulate themselves - at the very minimum - our participation in performing "work" is inevitably tied to an ever specializing industry. The brick and mortar of a "smart city" are communication, and convenience within the sphere of consumerism, as a smart city is designed to perpetually better accommodate our daily life (which is inevitably heavily consumerist). What has to be reexamined and put under question in such a cultural tidal shift is our relationship to the terminology of performing "work"; what does "work" mean in a culture where we further ourselves from the office environment and manage to simply capitalize on things such as pictures of our breakfast and travels through creating data rich environments that act on advertisement on certain media platforms? The idea here is the ever-increasing blur within the notionally clear distinction between work and enjoyment - or production and consumption - as they slowly become one and the same. Under a capitalist lens, when our daily activity is regarded by our social tools (social media platforms, news, phones, computers, anything digital regarding any sort of "communication", etc.) as abundantly valuable collections of data that can be traded, it shapes the beginning of an a new invisible currency of which we are inevitably a part of without being able to access it directly (as we are not specialized). When the meaning of work is relative to an incredible amount of specialization not accessible to the masses in order to maintain such a large scale of automation - physical & digital - what is left of "work" is our ability to capitalize on our daily activities via existing, automated social media infrastructure. The hope is that the shift is not in the full-scale automation to liberate us from work because it will always be capitalized, (note: liberation from work is not liberation from consumption, we will always need full pockets to consume), but that in this liberation from work we are integrated better into this new digital economy where our value as data is two-way, and not just monetarily beneficial to the algorithms that treat us as data, so that we too can capitalize for ourselves by using our data, by regarding ourselves as data. Very simply exemplified by the fact that by posting an Instagram picture on Facebook, you incite activity towards Instagram from Facebook users (whether they already use it or not), and be supplied a commission for doing so; the same way you advertise McDonalds by walking around with a HappyMeal or McDonald balloons after consuming there - you entice other to do so as well. This commissioned based economic system already exists through very select platforms like Lyoness and many more which employ commission based cash-back social "pyramid-networks", except applied to everything we do. Through that, you earn through yours and others' consumption, because your "work" is to advertise, or entice others' consumption beyond yours. And if consumption equals pleasure and enjoyment, then work equals the same. Automation therefore leads to a very skewed society; those who are specialized enough to operate the automation (until it can operate itself), and those subject to it. It is within that subjugation that all this would be organised, as society requires less and less physical labor, and more and more digital "labor" - or activity. As things currently stand however, under this notion, by using Instagram daily you already are inherently a worker of automated social systems; you just are an unpaid worker. That, is an ethical question that our generation might perhaps begin to legally and politically address, hopefully.