[dlcarrier]

About 200 years ago, someone figured out a commercially viably way to make yarn into cloth using a machine, instead of by hand, and it created a significant immediate disruption, but loom-generated clothing quickly became a commodity that made life better for everyone.

That wasn't the last time that a high-labor field was automated, much to the chagrin of current and potential future workers in the field, only for the once-expensive output to become a commodity that significantly raised the quality of life for everyone. Despite the Luddites fears of an economic collapse, it always grows.

The only reason we have desk jobs is because we've automated so much that only a small portion of us have to work on things we need to survive. Most of the tech industry is really an entertainment industry that isn't at all economically necessary. As our culture shifts around the endless entertainment possibilities available, we change what entertainment we want to throw money at, and people do more of that, and less of what they used to do, with minimal impact to the rest of us.

As long as there's enough people and machines making our food and clothing and housing, we're all going to be fine.

Granted, there are plenty of efforts to stop people and machines from growing food or building housing, but that's an entirely different problem.