"Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables instead of buying them from the store."

These children haven't a clue, have they?

It's actually rare that humanity blunders into the plot of an actual science fiction novel.

When people have no work, bad things happen to them and the people around them. Loss of income is only the start. Loss of purpose comes next, closely tied to loss of meaning.

The suicide rate will skyrocket. So will mass killings. Oh, and so will mass sabotage against AI and those few human beings who truly profit from it.

Someone will kill that damned Elon Musk. I imagine that they will use waves of drones. Funny, when you think of it.