The bit everybody misses is that people still need something to do with their day.

The problem is the wrong conception of what work actually is. Work is what you do with your day that you find enjoyable and that others consider useful. When that gets paid we call it a job.

And that's it.

Work is leisure you get paid to do. It's a social activity that furthers the cause of the group of humans engaged in it.

If it isn't, then perhaps the system we've chosen to allocate work is broken rather than the concept of work.

Perhaps we need a system that ensures there are always more jobs than people that want them, and that creates work and jobs based upon agreed social value. Which then forces the market sector to compete, which in turn forces market value to align properly with the social value we're after.