I have thought about this problem a lot. I concluded long ago that in the distant future, when all jobs as we know them are automated, that the only work for humans would be commenting online and that people would be paid for their comments.
Isn't the future great?
Also automation has been spreading and advancing at a faster and faster rate for quite a while now and yet unemployment of humans, in America anyhow, is at record lows. Even among those without a high school degree.
Yeah there is a lot of good, hopefully to free humanity to better potentials to aspire to, like making the world better, something like Star Trek ;) where we work to better ourselves together
once holodeck porn is perfected no one will have much interest in seeking out new life and new civilizations or boldly going anywhere. ;) Like WALL-E.