The problem is that more and more low-level jobs are going to be automated away in the coming years, and that's going to leave a lot of people without jobs avai

The problem is that more and more low-level jobs are going to be automated away in the coming years, and that's going to leave a lot of people without jobs available that pay sufficiently to allow them to survive. Truck drivers, burger flippers, fruit pickers, various clerical workers, and many more will be out of a job because those jobs can be done better and cheaper by robots; at best, they'll have one worker overseeing the robots and making sure they work right, and coordinating between them. The computer you wrote this comment on was mostly built with robotic labor: no one populates modern circuit boards by hand. So yes, work is less and less necessary, regardless of your religious beliefs to the contrary. No, not all work is going to go away; we'll still need engineers for a long time (unless they invent human-level AIs to do the engineering work for us). But not everyone is capable of being an engineer or doctor or other worker requiring significant education; most people just aren't capable of those jobs. The other big factor is: how much work? Why do we need to work 40 hours a week or more? With more work being done by automation, and our productivity at the highest point in history, when can we finally take more time off and do enjoyable things instead of putting in "face time" at a workplace because of the quaint notion of hourly pay? Why are we not all benefitting from automated labor making our lives easier and more luxurious?