The supposed narrative is that we're all going to join the information economy. Well, the information economy doesn't necessarily generate a lot of jobs. Because you can run a server farm with a handful of people.
And the other point they're making is, even if you *do* create a new meat-space industry that (in the past) would have employed 100,000 people, well now it won't generate that many jobs because more of them are automatable, and we are crossing a threshold where what we used to consider non-automatable jobs is going to suddenly *be* automatable, so the opportunities in meat-space industry is going to drop sharply.
So... if physical jobs are going into further decline, and knowledge-worker jobs are also going to go into further decline, and IT jobs are going to go into decline, we have some serious thinking to do about how people are going to occupy themselves, and make a living, or what it even means to make a living.
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