By menial I mean jobs that can be taken over by machines but aren't. The sort of low paying job that's given out but not really needed. For example in china I o

By menial I mean jobs that can be taken over by machines but aren't. The sort of low paying job that's given out but not really needed. For example in china I once entered an empty restaurant and was waited on by by being encircled by 20 servers when in reality I only needed one. Sign spinners are a good example of this. >There's only two options in such a doomsday scenario where all work is done by machines. Either humans will be given some kind of basic income, or the rich will get an army of machines and wipe out all the people they don't want. Or a combination of the two, such as humans given a basic income until the rich get tired of it and then build an army of machines to wipe everyone out. I have to disagree with this. This is a speculative prediction at best, there is no way to narrow down the future into two possibilities given the multitude of possibilities that may occur.