> they can do something else with their lives.
Let them eat cake.
Let them eat cake.
That phrase was born as a straw man.
In a hypothetical end state where the people who own fully-automated production of everything, and need maybe few millions employed to support and guard that production, the "freed" people are not going to do something better with their lives.
AI will bring about a post-scarcity society, just not for you, worker.