Protests against cuts ... and job losses?

Working in the public sector I share the anxiety that services are not (or not just) being made more efficient, but are being reduced. I don't share all the protesters' values though.

I want services to be more efficient. I don't want to create jobs, I want less work for humans. This was the big promise of technology, and we could do it.

What needs doing? How can we do it most efficiently now, and more efficiently in the future (answer: technology in the majority of cases)? There may be work left over for humans to do, but as little as possible, preferably.

Those in futile, pointless, socially destructive jobs, and jobs that can be done by technology are basically being paid for doing something that doesn't need doing by a human, or shouldn't be done at all, so they can get money to access the means to survive. Why not just arrange for everyone to have the means to survive directly, instead of creating pointless work (or worse still destructive work). Then people are freed from shackles and excel at what they are good at, benefitting humanity and themselves. Nothing else will do.