Or productivity goes up, since we don't need a massive population doing menial tasks. Just like every time someone has said this for the last 300 years.
Won't someone think of the people picking the seeds out of cotton?
This is a point I often make that people dismiss out of hand quite often. "People need jobs to have meaning, people need jobs to feed their families" and while thee are true, nobody really wants to screw toothpaste tube caps on toothpaste tubes for a living, and a world where nobody has to do that job is inarguably a better world for everyone.
Won't someone think of the people picking the seeds out of cotton?