Unfortunately, knowledge workers aren't a uniform hivemind, so your presumption is overly broad. Firstly, there is power law variance in capability for higher-o

Unfortunately, knowledge workers aren't a uniform hivemind, so your presumption is overly broad. Firstly, there is power law variance in capability for higher-ordered reasoning. As automation increases and self-modifying systems are deployed, there is a risk of losing grasps on simplicity and understandable systems. There are increasing possibilities of clever obsfucation by complexity for intentional purposes of job security and vendor lock-in and unintentionally for facilitating machine (self-)manipulation (that sounds dirty but you know what I mean). The number of high-income jobs is going to contract, but perhaps the high end will increase in pay in very limited numbers. I'm sure that the high end of IC7-9 will increase, perhaps with pay exceeding $10M USD/year in a few cases. I already know of people making $800-1.2M.