Am I the only one thinking that begging business to keep employing people will, if anything, only worsen the social issues caused by this change? Scraping the m

Am I the only one thinking that begging business to keep employing people will, if anything, only worsen the social issues caused by this change? Scraping the minimum wage? Cheap labour? Is that what we're developing machines for? Is that civilisational progress? What next? I hope Bill Gates is as right about this as he was about the "famous"[1] 640KB, but can't we, as a civilisation, think of better solutions? Like e.g. not working and using automated means in order to provide a minimum of food/resources to everyone? Am I dreaming,does this idea seem as unreasonable as a self-driving car did a century ago? [1]: and possibly apocryphal