"what if jobs are not the solution but the problem?"

[anarch]

10. humanitarian missions could largely supplant the current military-industrial profit center

In a mixed economy, that is (that kind of profit would be sort of meaningless in a purely socialist arrangement). Government contractors could make plenty of profit supporting aid delivery and infrastructure construction efforts...swords into ploughshares, kinda.

Ideally (again, just in my opinion), the bulk of human employees that would need to be kept in line would be almost completely eliminated, if we can develop advanced enough AI in combination with automated production methods. All human labor would be voluntary...

The problem I see is that our current concept of wealth depends on a certain relative position of privilege in society as compared to others. If we didn't have poverty, we couldn't have extreme wealth either...and somehow or other extreme wealth became a thing that people strive for.

To me, it's always boiled down to the question of whether we want to cooperate and live together as a society, or if we want it to be everyone for themselves, just a fight for survival. People generally always find some way to create problems rather than working on solutions to the problems we already have. Maybe someday we will evolve.