If David Ricardo woke up and somebody told him all those jobs did get automated, and then asked him, 'What do you think the prime-age employment rate is in 2026?', I think he'd be surprised to be told it was the highest it's ever been other than 2000. What David Ricardo ended up missing is that you have these economics of structural change, where everything that got automated became cheap. People had more money to spend, and then they started spending it on services.
