Automation vs Humanity

In a world that believes in science as the royal road to truth (mythology), defined as utility. Is something useful, either in figuring new things out or in doing stuff. Inside the narratives that comprise that worldview (myths), technologies are the ritual through which real things are created. Non-technological things seems somehow insubstantial. What are they good for, anyway? If some thing is not better for some use than something else, then what is the use in keeping it around? An economics (ordering of Home) based in this thinking leads to automation in general, where more efficient (externally controllable to the finest detail) robots replace people. Unemployment is the first and most obvious consequence, but there are many others. 

Clearly this is inevitable, the mechanism that makes it so is super-efficient and cannot be stopped, and must just be worked around, especially at the level that humans treat each other as though they too are worthy only when they act most like machines.