Our society will continue to evolve into one with increasing variances in wealth, knowledge, culture and outlook. Technocratic and economic elite will be probably 5% of the population. They will drive the productivity and innovation gains such as these, which will continue apace.
The middle class will comprise another 25-30%, while the remaining 70% or so will increasingly just be filling space and living off entitlements. They won’t be encouraged to participate in the economy, and many won’t want to. Many simply won’t have the knowledge or skill to participate either and they will be pushed further and further into dependency.
Its the most obvious way forward for the US Government and the progressive left. They will need rapid technological productivity gains such as this to balance out the FED money printing and taxes to fund massive Gov’t debt and liabilities, and to pay for the nanny state.
I just saw your #18, kind of mirror what I am saying in #19.