Correct, in some sense, but you ignore the broader picture. The abolition of work (a goal we should all strive for) ONLY makes sense in a world that has abolished capitalism. We already see the tension between the capitalist imperative that “work is a moral good in and of itself” and the common sense proposition that we should abolish work. We see this in a number of ways: 1. the rise of social democracy and as a way of bandaging the problem with welfare 2. the rise of “bullshit jobs”- jobs that really don’t accomplish anything meaningful at all and are merely there to fill up space in a vacuum. 3. the sheer hatred and frustration many/most people have for their jobs.

In capitalism, people who don’t work simply die. When there aren’t enough jobs for people and there isn’t a social safety net to pick up the slack, people without work are expected to just die off. This is a batshit insane paradigm of course- if there is so much wealth that people don’t need to work, why would we just let people die? Well on some level we recognize this as both barbaric and unintuitive, so we build vast social safety nets (bandages, nothing more) so that people aren’t literally dying off (just suffering), we spam the economy with bullshit jobs that serve little to no purpose simply because we buy into the capitalism maxim that arbeit macht frei, and the net result is that the unemployed lived miserable lives while many or most of the employed also live miserable lives of drudgery and pain.

The goal should be communal ownership of the means of production, as many before me have advocated- names such as Marx, Bakunin, Proudhon, et. al. They lived around the time when industrialization was having a similar effect on capitalist economies, and Marx in particular stressed how the goal SHOULD be 100% leisure and the abolition (or vast reduction) of work. A UBI is merely another bandage; everyone should collectively own society’s resources. This is democracy in its purest and its the only way we will prevent the rise of a new feudal system in which vile mouthbreathing closet imperialists like Andreesen horde the Earth’s resources and hold the rest of us hostage.

You are however correct that the author does not really offer any broader solutions. They note the problems of increased automation and so on, but don’t make the logical leap to “abolish capitalism.”