As I see more and more people as 8-10 hr/day baristas or other intense service industry labor types, I'm wondering more and more what we think of as "good" jobs. Software jobs are more and more like factory production lines - sit and churn out code as fast as possible. Doctor jobs are fast examine, write up, next patient please whole dealing with insurance and pharmaceutical and government pressures. Half of "business development" is cold calling and web analytics. Much of the future growth will be taking care of old people as personal assistants caring for the most minute hygiene. Any of the graceful enjoyable parts of work are being wrung out of the system - "getting to know the customer" is a bunch of web transactions with maybe a couple phone calls. And as someone noted, the greatest minds of today are focused on trying to get people to click on more ads and "stuff". So what is it we found noble about work, and does it still exist?

P$ - automation software is essentially "robots" as well, missing a few of the physical components, but with cameras, scanners, IoT sensors, mobile phone location, et al, the difference becomes less dramatic.