In Bullshit Jobs, Graeber wrote that the great job loss due to automation already happened; it was just swallowed by a ballooning middle management class. That

In Bullshit Jobs, Graeber wrote that the great job loss due to automation already happened; it was just swallowed by a ballooning middle management class. That ballooning happened for power reasons, higher up managers signaling their status by expanding their teams, while those teams don't have much to do. Graeber used the terms of neo-feudalism for this supposed pattern: every manager has their own little fiefdom. If Graeber was right about the existence of this pattern, we might even see an expansion of those fiefdoms: even more bullshit jobs!