NPR has a handy quiz about how replacable your job is:
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine
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But the boundaries and specificities of who owns what in the communist manifesto are constructed around workers owning the means of production. The central justice logic turns around the idea that the people deserve or at least destined to take the reigns of the spoils of productivity because they actually do the work rather than the capitalist who simply happens to have wealth.
IIRC there isn’t a whole lot about people having a right to live and be provided for. I’m not trying to be pedantic, i find it as truly frightening that communism is such a spectre for moat people currently, yet it is a far less radical departure from the valus of work for pay than the system we will need in a post-labor society.
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Do you mean big-C Communist big-M Manifesto, as in the work by Marx and Engels? If so, bear in mind that there are other forms of communism than Marxian communism.
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Exploiting humans for jobs that are typically automated could become a mark of class or sophistication. Sure, you could have a Roomba like everyone else, but it’s so much more fun to make the maid dress up and follow your capricious orders.
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