Reminds me of Manna, by Marshall Brain (the prose isn’t the best, but it’s mostly designed as an essay on the effects of automation on a US-style capitalistic society delivered via a story perspective). The vastly expanded unnecessariat are imprisoned/housed in robot-built “welfare terrafoam housing” by chapter 4. (then the viewpoint character is rescued by a long-term investment made by her father and taken to a robot-supported anarcho-communist society in Australia, which is very much a Mary Suetopia with glaring single-points-of-failure)
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