I've thought about this a lot, and if you assume that automation will continue to put more and more people out of work, then there seems to be two probable path

I've thought about this a lot, and if you assume that automation will continue to put more and more people out of work, then there seems to be two probable paths forward: either bureaucracy continues to grow, causing more and more people to do meaningless busywork, or a UBI is established. Neither option seems great to me, considering human nature, but if I were to bet I'd say that current inertia is moving us toward the bureaucracy option.