A lot of people in the US already DO lay around all day and get high, because that's what they want to do. There's actually not a thing actually wrong with that, except a large number of them are ODing, which makes the whole system (largely sponsored AND enforced by the pharma manufacturers (they directly fund a lot of police forces, and the major reason they're pushing Narcan so much is to keep their customer base from drying up due to attrition).
The fact is, HAVING to work just to survive pretty much short-circuits the value of civilization; animal life is restricted to such a paradigm because they do not have civilization (even the ones with sophisticated societies). That's the real end-value of automation (for humans; AI might evaluate it differently), it enables civilization's value to be realized.
Anyone who wants to, though, could pedal some power into the grid, or grow food, or paint, or teach, or haul trash, or... and they would ADD VALUE whatever they do.
We have the server-power to enable appropriate allocation and demand-balancing now.