To me, it's obvious what the future of mass production will look like, but it's not at all clear how to stave off a future where 10% of us are shouldering the e

To me, it's obvious what the future of mass production will look like, but it's not at all clear how to stave off a future where 10% of us are shouldering the entire productivity burden for the rest of the country. Extrapolating your logic, that 10% will probably shrink to 1%. And chances are, you or your descendants probably won't be part of that 1%. Grove isn't saying that we should have more mundane manufacturing jobs. He is saying there is a problem with stratification when 1% of people make all the money while the other 99% are left unemployed because they couldn't patent X technology 1 day faster, or didn't beat the other 99% of applicants for the rare number of jobs left. Whether or not the only solution to this is to artificially preserve mundane manufacturing jobs is another matter.