Why don’t we pay people to dig ditches with spoons? It would produce jobs!

Be glib all you want, but research has shown that displaced workers do not have great outcomes [1].

It's all fun and games to dunk on a person online, but when an entire industry employing millions of people starts to dissolve do to rapid automation, people will have wished there were more calls for organization, social safety nets, etc.

[1] https://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/aecrev/v83y1993i4p685-709.html...