The difference between this wave of tech and previous ones is that those wave made it so we no longer needed people to do X but we now needed them to do Y. We didn’t need guys running plows behind animals anymore, but we had tractors that needed driving. This wave though has no Y. Look at post 69 and that link. Once we get self driving vehicles fully adopts that’s it, we no longer need the Xs of long or short truck drivers, train conductors, bus drivers, taxi drivers or boat captains. And there’s no Y. Once you can print most of the contents of Target at home we no longer need the Xs of all that manufacturing, all that shipping, and all that selling. And again no Y.
Adding trillions to the economy != making jobs. We’re right now transition to a world where we can have a very high standard of living with very few people actually doing anything. 47% of the populace is on some dole or another, and most of them have smartphones and cable. It’s an interesting world coming.
But people need goals and adversities to be overcome reaching them - a struggle for survival. Remove all the natural threats from their environment and they begin to invent and imagine new ones, like "white privilege".