The bar for "low-skilled" is rising not only due to globalization but automation. In a way, this seems correct -- in a growing economy you shouldn't really be a

The bar for "low-skilled" is rising not only due to globalization but automation. In a way, this seems correct -- in a growing economy you shouldn't really be able to carve out a middle class lifestyle pushing a lever for 50+ years. If the economy is growing and innovation is taking it's course the low hanging fruit will eventually be clipped, the "gig" economy actually has the trend right in terms of the next "middle class" job for "low skilled" workers being involved with augmenting data driven services and services in general. The place where the gig economy falls short is of course regarding stability and benefits, I don't know if it's the governments place to step in here or a new model is required from these human augmented data services, but we're only at the beginning of the economy being fundamentally transformed by data.. and there are still many areas where automation and AI is not good enough.. perhaps this is where the low skilled middle class earns its next income.