This is truer now than ever before, and more so as automatons kill weeds in fields, drive tractors, irrigators (see link below ), pick goods in warehouses, make cars, pick-load-CNC and then package things. As we make ourselves redundant, we then look for new things to do, new roles to fulfil our lives. We lack direction and meaning because we are told that without working for forty hours a week our lives are meaningless.
You may argue that in the developing and third world these things and ideas are luxuries they can ill afford. However, the simple question is: If those people in developing economies lack employment now, will they ever find a place for people to do jobs in the future?
I would suggest, no.
At the top of the pyramid `The Man' decides to buy a few 24/7/365 machines that require minimal human input just for programming and maintenance. And an entire economy leapfrogs, in one bound past all those willing but idle hands, with their demands for pay, rights, fair treatment, pensions. Will it solve the problem of those populations? Probably not, if you confine your thinking to the way we work now. However, if you think about Universal Basic Income, and driving the stress of the grind out of your life. Would you then find that people are more content, less fractious, less likely to be forced into creating progeny they can't afford financially, but need anyway, to preserve their genetic stock and family name?
It sounds a little utopian, and it's a way off anyway, but I would argue that it's inevitable and that the sooner we embrace living rather than existing, the sooner we will be a happier species.
https://www.igus.co.uk/info/laser-robots-for-farming
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