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Nice irony. Yes, jobs are absolutely going away - which in the long run will be a good thing because people definitely won't have to work as much. Also the economy is going to have to adapt, including the wealthy class not hogging everything while everybody else either works as much as possible or sleeps outside. The transition will be difficult because the wealthy mostly control the things that have to change - including their ability to convince the dumber people to be afraid of change - but like many other unpleasant inevitabilities, we can't put this evolution off forever, and the longer we do, the tougher it will be. We can sponge and rinse the dishes now or soak and scrape them tomorrow.
Best we can do is a feudal tech oligarchy holding a gun to the head of an already dying world.
That's certainly one possible outcome, but hardly the best.
When has humanity ever been led by those who would choose the best outcome?
There have been periodic golden ages that tend to last the lifetime of an enlightened ruler - many in ancient China for example. In modern times these periods tend to happen when tech breakthroughs produce widespread benefits until someone figures out how to withhold them and charge rent for them.