Life's better when you put on your Keynesian hat. Productivity went up faster than population in the rich counties, and we all loss leverage with our employers

Life's better when you put on your Keynesian hat. Productivity went up faster than population in the rich counties, and we all loss leverage with our employers as there wasn't enough work to go around. Now, if populations fall, there will be enough work again, and there will be a need to automate (maintaining the same standard of living is nice and uncreative) which will make more meaningful work for us programmers (the "productivity industry").