We could use automation to reduce the total amount of work we have to do as a society for each individual to be safe and healthy, and then (and this is the hard part) share the benefit of that automation with the whole society, instead of concentrating it in the hands of a few people and kicking every person whose labor is now not essential to the curb.

Incidentally, the answer to this question has been the same since the advent of technology, going as far back as agriculture.