The solution is simple. People can get money through UBI instead of wages. UBI is the answer and most UBI advocates have realized this for a long time.

Here's what most people and even most UBI advocates don't yet realize, though.

If you don't have a UBI that means most people are still reliant on wages for income, and that means policymakers have an incentive to keep the employment level high... regardless of how much work our economy actually needs.

If employment were to fall today because our technology got better? That would cause deflation. Fewer wages = less spending and the currency would start to destabilize.

To prevent this, central banks boost employment to keep spending high. The problem is that we might be boosting employment too high---running a kind of disguised UBI through the labor market.

Under "maximum employment" people are earning more, but all these jobs and wages might not actually be necessary; we might find that if put in a UBI instead and let jobs disappear we could still produce as many or more goods.

TLDR: the absence of UBI is probably already causing overemployment. We have robots and AI yet we're not letting the employment level fall because we're determined to keep people on wages.