Society needs to think about what we will do when a significant portion of the population simply cannot find productive work.
I fear inevitable socialism as millions of people need to be taken care of because they cannot contribute to their own well-being. I mean: we’re already there.
Personally (my personal bias for a life that I would find pleasing) if I were supplied with the equivalent of 40 acres and a mule (probably more like 5 acres today) and told to produce what food I could: grow vegetables, raise chickens, have a few goats. I could move to Nebraska and just live in the country. If I were a poor farmer, the government could boost my living standard with bags of beans and rice, boxes of cheese, and perhaps small checks.
The alternative (it seems to me) is that we crowd everyone into the inner cities of Oakland, Detroit, Newark, etc and send them checks for life while they boost their living standard with drug dealing and crime.
Overall, I think society is not going to have a wide range of options.
They would never do what you suggested because it makes sense but it doesn’t make them and their friends money so they would get little benefit from it .
It’s like why so many people who live in San Francisco need to get aid to pay rent . Nancy Pelosi herself benefited from it by collecting that rent paid for by the government (of course once the government started paying the price went up and up )
That’s how Valerie Jarrett made her money in Chicago etc
We should start by closing the borders. If existing low skill workers can't find work it's nuts to bring in millions more.
But in the long haul we need to consider the possibility that increased productivity means less work for everyone - and that's not the worst thing that can happen!
I wouldn't mind a ten hour work week.