a bit off-topic/random thought: How will inequality evolve as technology continues to rapidly progress through automation? COVID resulted in large unemploymen

a bit off-topic/random thought: How will inequality evolve as technology continues to rapidly progress through automation? COVID resulted in large unemployment... yet we still function optimally when it comes to manufacturing/supplying/delivering life's basic necessitates, as well as generally performing work function on a large digital infrastructure primarily capitalizing on its continued evolution. To me this is an alarm that makes apparent our market economy is not aligned with technology's true state and our society is very vulnerable to rapid risk we can't rapidly mitigate or adjust to. Also showing that other countries like China are in an operating model (whether humane or not) that is better aligned. "AI" basically pitches an optimum point called the "singularity" and something I understand simply to be a technology that can make improvements to itself without us helping it. -- implying automation for all aspects of life. So what happens along the way? ... because we're approaching any singularity very iteratively and where 1 person can own some automation that replaces a million jobs. Inequality seems like it's only going to get worse. Hoping someone can reference any research in this area or how our market economy can evolve (admit my thought process here is very naive and anecdotal)