it could be good for humanity IF the societal and economic model for basic survival would evolve in tandem. If we were moving towards UBI and made employment a

it could be good for humanity IF the societal and economic model for basic survival would evolve in tandem. If we were moving towards UBI and made employment an optional thing then a world in which machines do most of the human work would be utopic indeed But reality has evolved differently, and after the need for manual labour and craftsmanship got decimated in the last century, now software is pushing into the fields where all the people needing jobs who aren't needed in production ended up. If we follow this train of thought, that we'd like to diminish the need for individual labour, without removing the individuals need to work as well, we'll just be enlarging the divide between affluence and utter poverty.