Yes, we have already automated away some production facilities and will soon automate the rest, but human work is way more than just producing goods. Increasing

Yes, we have already automated away some production facilities and will soon automate the rest, but human work is way more than just producing goods. Increasing amount of our work is focused on solving problems. Saying that we may now stop working is like saying there are no more problems to solve. That we're done here. That this is the world we want. Given the abundance of problems to solve, I think there will be abundance of jobs. Many of them may involve directing robots or ML algorithms for increased productivity at lower skill level. Others may involve seeking out specific problems to solve. Note that this task requires you: * to have initiative, * to be affected by a problem yourself or to empathize with someone else who is affected. Such jobs would stay around for a very long time. Maybe one day we will have a god-like super-AI that would not need to be run and configured by anyone and would seek out and solve problems completely of its own accord. But this isn't even on the horizon. EDIT: formatting