Is work important? I'd sure retire if I had a reasonable savings. And probably start a vegetable garden, and reading fiction which I have been putting off for long.
The larger issue is workers accepting Covid-19 payouts and losing interest in work or at least in their current career.
Several things have to come together here, and I optimistically hope for: more automation and AI removing drudgery work, people are encouraged to do more meaningful (to them) work that is good for themselves/community, and we reach a compromise that rewards super performers like Elon Musk while at the same time provides adequate food banks, free training, and inexpensive communal housing for the people at the very bottom.
Most of my friends think I am a little nuts with my high degree of optimism but I think things will work out OK.