I prefer to think of it as realistic. I have seen a number of folks who were skilled mechanics who worked with a dealership for minimum wages. But the con on parole has the hardest time finding a better job. And woe to a professional who goes to jail. I had a chum in the oil biz that went to prison for 3 lousy marijuana plants on his porch. He had to sell the place, went to jail for nigh a year and it took 10 years before he could get his crime pardoned by the governor, and then he resumed his career as an engineering geologist working for an environmental company. He is still working largely because he spent tons of money clearing his name and having to spend 10 years underpaid because of his past.
As for optimism, under Biden we will see an effort to stifle the energy industry except wind and solar (neither geothermal nor nuclear will be spared) and that will result in the changing of the whip hand from the USA and its oil independence, to OPEC and Russia in the drivers seat...and they like higher prices, which will in turn, happen anyway because of a weak dollar.
If no robots existed with $0 wages, then almost 100% will exist if minimum wage is $100/hr. So some robots will thrive at $15/hr...15%? I am suspecting the threshold for 100% adoption of robotics is lower than $100/hr labor. So...where is the breaking point? We've rather ignored the slow progression of robotics and automation since the doomsday forecasts of the 1950s.
As a child, my aunt worked in a poultry processing plant. The birds were plucked by hand, degutted by hand, and cut up with a pair of meat scissors. They were packaged and weighed by hand. Those scissor got dull and could be taken apart and sharpened-another job that disappeared. Plucking and evisceration is done now by machine, and it takes less than half the staff it took 50 years ago.
As a teen, I had a 1½ T truck and a loader. In a bucking crew, it took 4 - a driver, a loader on each side and someone on the truck to stack. With the loader, we could put 2 men on the truck and no one bucking - 3 man crew. With the bale wagon, you only needed one man to operate the wagon. With round bales a 70 year old can load the same tonnage as we did in half the time, move it miles away, and dump the bale wagon without touching the hay, stack it in a barn with a tractor and bale spears.
Automation is constant and productive increases are required to not fall behind. But what happens when there are no "entry level" jobs? What will people do? Do you expect the robot owner to share their wealth? Or do you expect those who adopt robotics to see a diminishing amount of business because their customers have no job and no money?