Physical work is creative. Wielding the body takes intelligence and is improved incrementally by trial and error. People can and do take pleasure in it. Robots are merely an extension and enhancement of the bodies of their operators. (So the perennial fear of robots 'taking over' amounts to saying that bodies will somehow take over.)

It's not about being free from physical work, it's about choosing what problems to work on -- before other problems choose you! In most cases people who work a job are having their problems chosen for them. So they are still, in this sense, slaves.

And this is itself a problem. We haven't found the solution yet. But we may...