Automation, unemployment and UBI are the future. The sooner countries realize this, the easier everything will be.
Any cult, and the current global climate is a jobs cult, always doubles down on the mythology and mysticism it erects, even if it gets uprooted with evidence, facts, trends, and data.
What's most concerning about cults, and why this is gonna be a hard thing for us to leap over, is it's their own narrowing worldview against change and "reality" that inadvertently create the doomsday scenario they worry about most. If Christian fundamentalists believe Satan will return and hell will come to earth, their climate denial is unintentionally the fuel needed to have this scenario happen, though in this sense "Satan" would just be moral breakdown and "hell" would be the burning earth. Similarly, the doubling down on jobs, and thus the doubling down on the idea one is impoverished and needs benefits
from jobs will be the same people that fuel social implosions when jobs cult cultures fail and continue to fail in allowing people to check enough boxes to be a "haver" in a game that is increasingly, and overwhelmingly, a game of have nots.
This is why austerity is rocket fuel to the fire here; it will, and has never, done any actual good, but only seems good in the context of a jobs cult and "grooming" people back into it. This runs into the primary problem at play: the assertion that everyone needs a job, and if one lacks a job, the world goes to hell. It's a self-affirming approach.