And here we see you’ve hit upon Jevon’s paradox. The scope of work will grow to use more than it did before, now that human labour achieves more for the same money. Employment will ultimately go up not down (over the long term - we are seeing a lot of short term instability and noise, although there’s much said about AI without it yet showing up in the data, as per articles recently shared on HN about employment figures across the US and the world).