I've noticed this trend, and it's greatly concerning. There are plenty of downsides to wage slavery, but overall there has been a historical improvement to huma

I've noticed this trend, and it's greatly concerning. There are plenty of downsides to wage slavery, but overall there has been a historical improvement to human dignity and quality of life due to people being useful as units of production. As technology diminishes this and there are fewer roles that need to be fulfilled by actual humans, people will be forced to viciously compete over fewer and fewer jobs to stay out of abject poverty. So-called "knowledge work" isn't safe either, as these jobs gradually get gobbled up by software and specialized AI algorithms. Maybe the unemployed will be able to invent new jobs for themselves to create more wealth; maybe technology advances will make a welfare state trivially cheap to maintain. But I think the prospects for mass poverty are very real.