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This graph shows how labor productivity and GDP have soared, but household incomes have stagnated. The rewards of a growing economy are not going to the people producing it.
"Medical paraprofessional positions—radiology technicians, phlebotomists, nurse technicians, etc.—are a numerically significant and rapidly growing category of relatively well-remunerated, middle skill occupations. While these para-professions do not require a college degree, they do demand one to two years of post-secondary vocational training."
Yet enrollments in these programs are kept artificially low when many unemployed people could be trained in these occupations and find fruitful employment.
It's a fascinating topic, especially because we have no real way of resolving it until the future itself comes to pass. I suspect that there may be a fairly lengthy period of time during which human labor and automated processes will become competitive with one another, but with neither attaining a distinct permanent advantage - hence, we'd have temporary surges in human employment, intertwined with job losses that seem to be due to "efficiency gains," but due to the conflicting and ever-changing statistics, it will be tough to draw firm conclusions about what is happening, or what stage of the technologization process we happen to inhabit at any given time.
The author Marshall Brain wrote a somewhat-famous novella called "Manna" a few years ago where he tries to imagine a "post-work" society. It is an interesting thought experiment, even if it may be quite a while until it becomes a reality.
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