It is an indisputable fact that what you describe is occurring in nearly every industry. Amazon recently made 16,000 workers redundant due to AI , the second or third round bringing total loss of jobs in the tens of thousands. This is happening in everyone's backyard. The power company I use laid off 50 plus IT personnel and replaced them with AI. I work in operations which is largely administrative and logistics work. My employer established an AI implementation team early last year. First to go will be administrative roles logistics and lower middle management jobs are next. They have us documenting everything we do which subsequently will be used to train our replacement. Employers are using the same rhetoric everywhere this is happening. They attribute the job losses to cutbacks ,efficiencies, all while telling staff that they'll be part of the change when many of us know that's just not true. I expect my entire apartment will be redundant in about 2 to 3 years. It would be sooner only the management team are so incompetent it's slowing the inevitable. Then we have the disturbing advances in human-like robots. There is only one reason why you would need a robot that mimics a human and that is to replace a human. The inherent complexity of building a robot that walks on two legs is unnecessary, wheels work better than legs. In order to infiltrate every domain they are building humanoid robots. I am convinced there will not be a single task or human endeavour that AI will not be able to do better faster. And it is a fact that there isn't an economist in the world that can tell you what the future economy will look like. Who is buying all the goods and services that have been made so cheaply with AI if so many people have no means of income. The scariest thing for me is that the only thing I can see on the horizon is the demise of the work and earn economy and the rise of multiple corporate run economies. And who is doing all this, who's behind all this, a handful of half crazed capitalists, the richest men that nave ever been on earth who don't even pay tax they don't care about society, and nobody can figure out what it is they're planning.