Normally we dread this coming from the supply side, “will we end all possible work through automation?”
But if you think it from the demand side, people will always need something like “work”: structured schedule, socialization, ways to differentiate yourself from others through “achievements” that not everyone can do, etc.
Even in an utopian society where all material needs are covered and wealth redistributed, people would create and consume art, “fight” for relevance, create petty politics... and gladly “pay” for part of that. So we will end up inventing new jobs in any case, so we can keep on using the same old concepts and social structure, just not for food acquisition.
If you think about it, this sophistication has been happening for some centuries already.
I could talk about this for days, but: the more we automate below us on Maslow’s pyramid, the higher we raise our baseline.
If you eliminate one kind of job, then another, then another, and then implement general purpose job elimination, where does it end?
Is it not an axiom of the world that there simply isn’t enough knowledge work to go around all seven billion of us?
By taking away jobs what do those of us who aren’t programmers, architects, novelists or day spa wait staff have left to do?
(Thank you for your comment, it really made me think.)