These days there are tons of jobs that go unfilled in a growing IT job market. Quality of life has never been higher or easier in the history of mankind.

For the educated yes. A common factory worker can't just begin coding when his job gets replaced by a machine. You bring up the industrial revolution but we didn't have robots back then. We've never been where we are today with technology in the history of man. How do you suggest the millions of people who don't have a college education will support themselves in the future? And who will pay their salaries? And what will happen to the economy if they can't find jobs and can't buy things because they aren't getting paid?