Vonnegut's Player Piano also comes to mind: society is divided into a management class and an underclass. Nearly all jobs are performed by machines, so no one

Vonnegut's Player Piano also comes to mind: society is divided into a management class and an underclass. Nearly all jobs are performed by machines, so no one in the underclass has to work, but everyone is assigned a meaningless job. It's partially about the seductive nature of technology, and how human ingenuity is capable of engineering us into irrelevance.