[ForHackernews]

Most jobs for most of human history have not been "knowledge work" involving symbolic manipulation. Maybe all the marketers, business analysts and software engineers of the world can take up their true callings as plumbers, carpenters and dishwasher repair people.

[thrance]

You think that all knowledge workers of the world will accept their social and material downgrades without making wave? That they'll all be able to find manual work?

[ForHackernews]

Who knows, maybe we'll come to value manual and caring work once AI can easily do all the moving-electrons-on-a-screen?

The financial and social hierarchy you allude to is not immutable. Programming was once a low-paid, low-status job done largely by women. It's only relatively recently that it's become a lucrative, high-status masculine-coded career.