Reddit mentions of This Perfect Day

For that particular class, I believe the assigned reading was:
>* Wastelands - John Joseph Adams

• The Crystal World - J. G. Ballard
  
• Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
  
• World Made By Hand - James Howard Kunstler
  
• It's Only Temporary - Eric Shapiro
  
  I also took a class on dystopian literature, which included:
  >* The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
  
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  
• The Children Of Men - P. D. James
  
• This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
  
• Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales - John Walters
  
• What Came After - Sam Winston
  
  Others I could recommend:
  >* Lost Horizon - James Hilton
  
• A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
  
• Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
  
• The Iron Heel - Jack London
  
• The Running Man - Stephen King
  
• Armageddon's Children - Terry Brooks
  
• The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
  
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
  
• 1984 - George Orwell
  
• Pretty much anything written by Kurt Vonnegut

this perfect day / A perfect day

I just finished it, and i was like totally stunned by the story, the plot, the ending... EVERYTHING. I couldn't leave the book for a minute.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/This-Perfect-Day-Ira-Levin/dp/160598129X

> The big question is, what happens when there are (almost) no more jobs for people? Will the power be in the hands of the few running the AI companies? What will the economy look like? Will we still be able to make money, and should we still have money since at that point everyone is pretty much obsolete.

This Perfect Day by Ira Levin doesn't exactly answer your question, but it sounds like you would enjoy it nonetheless.