As a robot repairman, the future is bright. Seriously, nothing has changed, those who worked hard in gaining skills can still sell those skills, while those who screw off and do drugs are unemployable. We used to let hunger be a teacher to the slothful, but now welfare is a high paying line of work. One that kills the very soul of a man...
Artificial Intelligence may surpass people 10 to 15 years from now. So the bots will take most of those jobs too.
Check out the Quantum Chip from D-Wave.
Robots will repair themselves.
Of course throughout history, we had wars to get rid of the excess population.