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So we should have people in certain simple repetitive jobs merely in order to keep an underclass employed? There’s no chance that there might be something else they can do?

We might have to do that out of realism and pragmatism. I'd probably do what they do in India. They used hundreds or thousands of men with shovels to dig holes, IIRC even for their atomic bomb tests, instead of machinery when they are able to just to keep people employed. I keep thinking of what Grandma said, "idle hands are the Devil's workshop" (or in the case of India since they are mostly Hindu, "Kali's workshop"). You can't have people sit around and do nothing, not everyone is a robotic engineer and even so, there would only be so many jobs in that field. This is where I break off in agreement with the general conservative thought, in some ways, the economy is a zero sum game.