Automation will come sooner or later for many, if not most of the jobs that we have. Better to get prepared. From my POV, a lot of those jobs out there can already be 100% automated with human watch, we simply keep them for employment.
Much of the agricultural automation that occurred in the 19th century was a response to labor shortages as people moved to industrial centers for jobs that were more attractive than farm labor.
There are pamphlets by early industrialists who advocated this as a way of dealing with labor shortages in their factories and the natural idleness of peasants.