This wave is just starting to build.
People are going to be displaced from jobs in ever increasing numbers. This will dwarf the displacements of the industrial revolution, the rise of the service economy, or the Internet.
It will come so quickly, that there just won’t be enough old style jobs to absorb the numbers being laid off. Like musical chairs, those left without a job in the shuffle will have to either make their own, or go on the government dole.
We know which of those the left will want. We should try to make it easy, cheap and quick to start small businesses, before this wave starts to hit in force. If the government won’t do it, maybe a service company can provide turnkey support for individuals to become self-employed (i.e. legal/regulatory compliance).
Each year will be more folks displaced than the previous. In just a few years, whole industries will begin rapidly shedding their employees, like Kodak when the digital camera took off (Down 1/3/ each year).
Taxi drivers, truck drivers, food delivery drivers all face a rapid handover to self driving cars in a few years. Manufacturing is starting to shrink already. When general purpose humanoid-equivalent robots become available, old jobs will start to go away by the tens of millions per year.
The downside to all of this is how disruptive it will be. Not everyone can program robots (robots will be largely built and programmed by other robots). Not everyone can run a small business. What type of small businesses would there be? People selling flowers? People running kiosks full of robot-made trinkets?
The left will want people to be idle and on welfare - they will want people to be idle and angry and poorly-educated and have people develop self-destructive lifestyles. Imagine the worst inner-cities multiplied by ten thousand. These people could become a vast army that would destroy everything - including themselves in large numbers. When the dust settles, the world would consist of pre-industrial tribes run by communist war lords. The left’s dream for the world would be realized.