Can't answer your question, Moebiex1.  The future always unfolds differently than we think it might. (so many "unanticipated consequences" of actions and reactions).  About your comment, "automation is replacing workers and well-paid jobs."  Hmm... 

Just watched a TV show in which that was the theme.  Big changes!  Jobs lost!  The cook decides, to heck with making horseradish by scratch--she go to the village and buy a jar of ready-made.  Result: one cook's assistant no longer needed!  The show is Downton Abbey, the year portrayed: 1925.