Re: The middle class is being automated out of existance
"[...] so only minimum wage workers and fat cats will survive."
...and hairdressers. Surgeons and dentists may have more robotic assists - but not sure they can be totally replaced. The danger is that they will not keep their manual skills up to a good level if a machine gets too good in routine cases.
Machine assistance is good in the overlap phase when assisting a skilled human. Eventually the humans lose their expertise - and their successors have very limited knowledge or experience. As E.M.Forster predicted in his uncanny internet age story "The Machine Stops" (1909).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
