You're right, and productivity growth isn't particularly high at the moment (indicating a low rate of automation compared to past decades). I also think it must

You're right, and productivity growth isn't particularly high at the moment (indicating a low rate of automation compared to past decades). I also think it must take a colossal lack of imagination - not to mention lack of awareness in the world around you - to think that we're going to run of of things to do anytime soon. On the other hand, a lot of the work that needs to be done is stuff that needs to come from collective action (Replication crisis, aging infrastructure, global warming, cancer research, environmental destruction, food scarcity, etc.), which we don't seem to have much a a political/societal will for at the moment. And a lot of the work that people are currently doing seems rather pointless, or even having a net negative impact on society (soda, highly processed food, credit cards, car dealerships, arguably almost all advertising, etc.). It's possible that we'll end up as a society where a larger and larger percentage of the population will end up working parasitic jobs meant to leech off of the smaller and smaller percentage of the population doing actual productive work. Again, this seems to stem from the lack of political and societal will to try to allocate resources more efficiently.