Have to disagree. A small handful of the superrich will benefit from the wealth as the humans will be off loaded as worthless. Trillionaires will soon refuse to pay for the socialist programs to feed and house the millions out of work. No such trillionaire will feel guilty about it.
Although some men (and women) on the auto assembly lines got other lines of work after losing their homes and dignity and life savings as automation and robotics took their work, it was still true that those were good old days with some jobs left, unlike the coming years now.
Workers in Detroit used to joke, grimly in the 1980s: “If they lay us all off so the robots make the cars we won’t have any money and the bosses will have to have the robots drive the cars.”
As we all know, the EV driverless autonomous vehicles are driving themselves.
The upheaval will become much worse not too far in the near future. Musk and others in the AI industry say that a living wage will need to be provided by government, for all those displaced from work because of automation. And that income from robots will need to be taxed in order to provide for displaced workers.
I'm just an observer of the trends. We have no say. It is what it is. I'm an old retired guy and remember the good old days. My grandkids will have to deal with what is happening due to AI and robotics. As for Musk, his Tesla company is building a Terafab site where Optimus robots will build chips for newer robots, while Tesla is using Optimus robots to build more robots. He realized years ago that he can't go 100 percent robotic, but he sure could reduce the number of humans working in his plants. This trend is accelerating in other companies. AI is the future, and the genie is out of the bottle.