I am a long practicing systems Engineer of about thirty years, gave up contracting full time during a part time metaverse related PhD which started in 2017, when it became apparent to me that a successful metaverse can never be done at profit, and since a metaverse includes a virtual version of the real system of humanity, that actually is a simulation of humanity, therefore humanity can never be successful at profit. Since then I've been spending my time using my skills and the tools of my trade unpaid, to analyse and look for an alternative system for humanity which would be successful.
It is apparent to me we need to fix humanity first, before we can have a successful metaverse.
If I am truthful, I would rather be working on a metaverse than on the real system of humanity, but I don't have a choice.
There is a technical solution, but it is currently obscured by the conventional economic system monetising only capital.
That is what makes us believe the world is finite/ zero-sum, when actually it isn't.
On this path, I've written about 260 stories in Medium, and participated in many thousands of comments around the subject.
It does affect jobs, the late David Graeber identified the phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. Follow those to the money and we find bullshit industries, all wasting and exhausting energy from finite sources.
Quit those and we cut the power requirements of humanity to a small fraction of what it has become.
No need to cull humans, even though we see far less formal "Jobs" in the future, there can be entire technical industries working positively in harmony with nature, in an infinite donation based solar powered economy.
Sounds hippie and Utopia, but having done the analysis, this is the only possible solution. Humanity has to move away from the fatally flawed zero-sum model.
A summary is in my story named "Humanity+ = Plants+" sorry no link here, Android app crap, throws away work when we try to post links... I will be on PC later but I hope above helps for now.