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Of course it does. Full automation means robots that make robots from scratch. Which means we can play entirely outside the gravity well. Which means practically infinite resources
Exponential growth is hard for the human mind to comprehend. After a start up process, full automation would mean infinite scaling. It would ramp up over the course of a few years, and then it would be godlike power. A billion ships full of tireless workers, why not. We're basically only restricted by energy at that point, and the sun is right there. It'll take time to get to the belts and gas giants, but once they're there then they can launch an endless stream of resources across the solar system. Hell, maybe you have the robots on board to do detail work in transit.
Megastructures are multi-generational projects. Superstructures might not be