Every revolution increased the tendency of wealth-gap creation by diminishing the number of "essential" workers (e.g. farmers, miners, industry workers). The ad

Every revolution increased the tendency of wealth-gap creation by diminishing the number of "essential" workers (e.g. farmers, miners, industry workers). The additional resources made available by allocation allow other jobs to be created, but a fraction of those resources are going to stay with the large enterprises. To put it shorly, sure, living wages will probably be forever affordable to a large hypothetical company in a future where software/hardware is extremely advanced: tasks like art asset creation, customer support, advertisement, get increasingly cheaper, relatively. But it won't necessarily make sense to pay a large wage to workers on non-core activities (a few developers/designers/engineers/managers): income inequality and maybe unemployment should tend to rise. I believe the US will soon be forced to adopt increasingly European-like well-being policies to amend this trend. Possible measures that come to mind are rising minimum wage , providing incentives to hiring, increasing taxes at the high income end, providing universal services (the health care reform comes to mind).