I think one day automation will progress to the point where basic needs (not wants, though that will come too for many) can be supplied by machines that are serviced by machines that are serviced by other machines. Some people will always want more than just the basics, and they will work, innovate, etc, to get there. Some won't. As much as I hate to say it, I think a universal basic income is inevitable (did I mention I hate to say it?).
What I don't see is some sort of destruction of human society because "no one" can "find" a job. Sure, I might have to spend all day fishing and posting online videos to make a few extra bucks, but I can live with that if I really have to.
I don't think so. Right now, basic needs are almost free. If you plant your own garden and raise a few chickens and rabbits, Hunt and fish a bit and buy long on rice and beans, you can have your belly full for very little per day. If I were well enough to walk off, I could literally live for free, just on forage, trapping and hunting. Nobody does that. Even our poor 'require' more than that.
The truth of it is, as long as someone has something someone else wants, that feller is going to figure out how to get that thing, and a voluntary transaction will take place. Barter or currency, or gold itself, that is capitalism, and it will never go away. And you will always have to grind off your nose. With all the gains in technology, that has never changed because it is the nature of life. Doesn't matter if you don;t have a dime, the work is still there. Just different.
The utopian life of ease that folks think will come of technology will never, ever occur.