I think this is the way it has to be.
Society is full of people driving forward and innovating in their own way. In order to get ahead of them (from the central position of someone wanting an overall regulation of society), one would effectively need to understand the end point of their innovations which is all but impossible, or to throttle innovation which is both controlling and liable to induce stagnation.
The assumption must be that as jobs are lost, creativity finds new ways to employ them. Maybe we all need to become Instagram influencers. Nevertheless, I share a concern that as simple jobs are increasingly taken over by automation, necessarily the people who will be most threatened are low skill workers (although as many may note, automation is beginning to eat into higher skill jobs, too).
It's an interesting question where this ends up. Let's say automation replaces the jobs of 20% of the population, and it turns out that either we can't create new jobs, or the jobs are more degrading and provide workers with less dignity. UBI might salve some of the problems of immediate harship, but living on handouts is a deeply unsatisfying way to live, never mind being constantly attacked as worthless welfare leeches. The end result is likely to be societal disorder.
If we are innovating towards a world where the rich, and the tech bros own everything, no thanks. I would rather live in a less economically dynamic world or do the German model than let Silicon Valley rule everything. Because people kept saying Hispanics will come for your job, even China, and India coming for your job isn't true.
It's the tech bros in Silicon Valley that steal your job, it's fellow Americans who do it. It's people who major in supply chain management, financiers, and the American Political establishment. we could have easily been like Germany where there are unions, and people on corporate boards who have unions, and sell high-quality products.
The same people who automate, and sold your assembly job to China, and are about to sell your service job to India, and Vietnam, and possibly other countries are the same people who then want to automate the jobs of everyone in the world.
I went to Dayton, and Cleveland Ohio, and what do you see... dead factories, and mills everywhere, shops closed, a dead economic area with no growth. It's easy to point at one, or two foreign countries it's harder to point at someone from your own race, or in your own country.
I am not saying we need to have no automation and free trade, but we need to have limits. Most Gamers who stream YouTubers, and Youtubers, in general, made min wage., and what about the people who aren't good-looking or are introverts. Fuck them right. No jobs for those people.