Is automation or robotics replacing human labor a short term problem or long term advantage?

As history has shown, inventions have always played a role to replace the need for a human work force (example: paper mail is less and less utilized at the invention of the telegram, telephone, and eventual internet, but we do have the postal service or some form of human labor involved to date). Do you think we will ever reach a point in our history where the low-skill (or even highly skilled) labor force is replaced with machines?,… and when that time comes will we live better lives as humans, the same, or worse? Is it more good or bad?

The prompt for my question came from watching the movie ‘Bliss’, featuring Salma Hayek and Owen Wilson. The movie has a lot going on, and I am not saying it is a ‘must watch’ but it had this small part of the movie where they were in this ‘perfect world’ and the reasoning for it all is that mankind had reached a level of technology where all of their needs were being met by technology and they were able to live their best lives because they only spent their time doing things that brought them joy.

Obviously this is just a movie, but from your POV would it be ultimately a positive thing for all of our needs to be met with technology in this way? It seems logical to believe that a human would always need to be present to ‘fix’ something that goes wrong, but maybe at some point we are beyond that too. When I think of it, I think the ‘getting there’ part seems like it could have a lot of destructive outcomes, BUT once that tech is fully in place it could be seen as a major shift into better living for all.

What do you think? Could you be replaced by technology in the things you do as “work”, and would you welcome it or would it stress you out to consider it?