Ideally, automation can redeploy workers into better and more interesting work, so long as they can get the appropriate technical training, says Johannes Moenius, an economist at the University of Redlands.

Ideally, that's what should happen.

In reality, not everyone can learn the things required for those more interesting jobs. Those people are not working low-hanging fruit jobs because they want to - it's because it's the only jobs they're able to do.