Which 1% of the population are you counting as doing useful work? From how I see it - those doing useful work right now are compensated far far less than those doing well paid but useless work
indeed, there is a lot of useful work that people could do that is currently not paid well. for example education, science, healthcare.... imagine what we can achieve, when all those who are not needed to sustain our life study science and research or medicine.
parents need not work but can focus their entire energy on raising their children.
or a different model, if 1% need to work 40 years to sustain us, then 10% can do the same while working only 4 years, or everyone only works one year. (ok, it doesn't scale like that because it takes more time to get experience for certain tasks, but even then, with such an abundance of available labor, every worker can spend half of their work time to teach others about their work)
all it takes is an understanding that the best thing to do with those not needed for work is to educate them to do something else that is useful for us.
or a different model, if 1% need to work 40 years to sustain us, then 10% can do the same while working only 4 years, or everyone only works one year. (ok, it doesn't scale like that because it takes more time to get experience for certain tasks, but even then, with such an abundance of available labor, every worker can spend half of their work time to teach others about their work)
all it takes is an understanding that the best thing to do with those not needed for work is to educate them to do something else that is useful for us.