Over the cause of the last 200 years, we switched from everyone working on a field to feed almost everyone, to a minority of the population feeding everyone. Factory work will soon be replaced in the same way, with elons AI bot and general robotic automation being on the rise. A lot of other fields will also be weeded out and every job that only requires work that can be replaced by algorithms will be replaced by algorithms at some point in the next 100 years.
So my question, what do we do? How do we ensure, that everyone has their basic needs covered? What do we want to reward in our society, if every job is equally useless / not demanding enough to give everyone the opportunity to “work hard and honest”?
Additional question, what opportunities arise from this circumstance? I'll give an example. Since we are profit oriented, everything is built as fast as possible and as breakable as possible to ensure that everyone buys multiple everything's across their lifespan. If we somehow manage to secure everyone's basic needs(housing, food, etc.), noone would NEED a profit anymore so we could built sustainable goods that last long and are built with love and passion, because the people that made the thing actually want to make the thing, because they chose to make it and weren't pressured into mass production labor to bring food on the table.
This is not a capitalism vs communism debate. I personally don't think that a free market can ever be the solution but neither can we get rid of trade in general. Also communism doesn't work but has some nice ideas, for me the solution lies somewhere in between and doesn't need this label battle that doesn't get us anywhere anyways. If you just come here to comment “communism bad” or “capitalism bad”, spare your time, please at least explain why it's bad and what you think would improve it.
Tl;dr: we can't create bullshit jobs for everyone for ever, how do we ensure everyone gets a chance at a decent living situation?