To me it's not the matter that "people shouldn't be doing jobs that can be automated" or "machines should do the work instead," it's that in a capitalist system

To me it's not the matter that "people shouldn't be doing jobs that can be automated" or "machines should do the work instead," it's that in a capitalist system, these changes are inevitable. As soon as these jobs start to be automated out of perfectly sound capitalist motivations, the dollar value of a human performing that task is going to fall precipitously, to near-zero. Clearly we need to figure out how to keep those people compensated enough to survive, possibly through changing to work that our economy values sufficiently, through subsidizing them from those same gains in efficiency through automation, or via some means not yet discussed.