"Then bricklayers will be able to stay home and do as they please." How? They won't be able to pay their mortgage/rent, and so be forced out onto the street.

"Then bricklayers will be able to stay home and do as they please." How? They won't be able to pay their mortgage/rent, and so be forced out onto the street. "but the challenge of seeing each other as viable individuals defined by something other than a "job" as unattainable?" Given this political climate, there isn't any will to help people who have been automated out of a job.