Replacing menial work with automation frees up the people doing the menial work to learn new skills and do other work Or, importantly, to do menial work on thi

Replacing menial work with automation frees up the people doing the menial work to learn new skills and do other work Or, importantly, to do menial work on things that were previously considered not as important or productive as what they were doing menial work on. People always assume retraining means you have to learn a technological job or something else absurdly out of reach. A lot of the time it just means doing the same or similar thing you were doing, but in another context that has now become relatively valuable enough to devote labor to now that this other thing don't require it. And, as you hint, being able to create a lot of value without a lot of ongoing cost is a pretty key step towards basic income (of which the "leisure economy" is really just a more extreme example). Having that would indeed offset the issues of those who can't or won't transfer skills.