Agreed. more and more jobs are being automated and going away. Both in big ways and smaller ones. Heck sometimes as a programmer I have bad feelings about making things more efficient for humans, thereby requiring less of them. In my career there has many projects that fit that description.

This is a complex idea, not without a large amount of challenges.

However as a citizen and programmer, I would rather see more things being automated, and instead of more unemployment, people could either not work, or find work they are more passionate about.

Just imagine if everyone that decided they want to not sit around all day, actually was working on something they were passionate about.