The hegemony of consumerism is falling apart and the things people increasingly "value more" than work is free time and to be loved by the people they love. That's something work won't give you in exchange.
You are presuming access to land to subsistence farm upon, skills needed to subsistence farm, and tolerance by the institutions to retreating from the existing economy and engaging in that.
Being able to feed and house yourself and family is rather hard to replace in the long run. The society still expects people to buy food and pay rent (mortgages on your house etc).
We could start paying citizens a base salary, but that salary would be rather low. And with a large part of the population not working we need to figure out how to finance these citizen salaries. Preferably in a way that don't drive business and money to other countries.
Countries compete for industry and there is a race to the bottom re cost of operating a business in a country. I have a hard to to reconcile how the trend with increasing automation and, anti work, basic income and global business.