What I'm saying is that we should get rid of the idea of not having a wage job at all as inherently less respectable than working with anything and introduce a guaranteed minimum income.
I can't help but agree that a policy of full employment or guaranteed minimum income is going to be necessary in the not-too-distant future, unless we're comfortable living in a society where most people are destitute because they weren't born to already-rich parents.
Ultimately you end up with a large portion of the populace dependent, and hence politically powerless, undermining democracy and our republic.
The real answer is, as usual, the harder one - continually improving education and access to education for the lower and middle segments, breaking cycles of poverty (and violence where applicable), eradicating Learned Helplessness [1], building better tools that enable more people to adapt to a new environment where machines have supplanted humans for some tasks but not all (FOSS and 3D printing being particularly interesting here).
It's a hard, imperfect task that will never be finished, but better than making the entire world completely dependent on a few.
Nixon tried this in 70's. It came surprising close to passing on the grounds that it would be far more efficient and lead to better outcomes than the patch work system of social programs we currently have.