The presupposition that goes into this approach, which is itself reasonable if you concede that presupposition, is that other aspects of current work culture like working conditions and working hours have to stay the way they are, in other words, that no matter how much automation happens we still have to prop up or even increase the total amount of time people spend working. Giving people more time to do things other than work is a foundational leftist goal going back hundreds, maybe even thousands, of years. Let's not just give up on it now of all times in history.
Work is an essential part of a relatively contented human condition. But the pendulum has swung too far in this direction in many places, as work has in some places tried to snuff out other human things like sex and free time.
Contentment will not come from pushing some principle to its extremes regardless of consequences, of course. It will come from some nuanced end point that respects the diversity of human nice-to-haves. Work is one part of that pie, but it is not the entire pie no matter how much mobilized capital might ever tell us otherwise.
