The 21st century model seems to be: find a place where a person is doing a job, and see if you can do it without them. What are we going to do with these people? Seriously, take an uneducated or mildly educated person, and what job can't you imagine a machine doing? For me, manual labor in a complex environment, like construction or janitorial work comes to mind. Anything rote is game.
I worked as an engineer at a V8 engine plant a few years ago. We had robots doing virtually all of the non-skilled labor in the entire plant and some of the skilled labor, too (milling raw steel casts, for example). A person comes with sick days, health costs, children, complaints, bathroom/lunch breaks and a union rep, just to name a few things. Each of these is indispensable for a worker, but non-existent to a machine. Additionally, companies are strongly incentivized to go robotic because many capital upgrades are partially or fully tax deductible (since, ironically, they "create jobs" for the producers of the capital acquisition). Companies don't exist to make products; they exist to make money. As such, tax policy is not just the best way, but the only way to change this trend.