The coming Great Extinction – of jobs

Summary: News of the coming great extinction has the chattering classes agog with fear. The rapid evolution of algorithms, software, and robots will make many kinds of jobs as extinct as the Great Auk. This will reshape the world into a wonderland -- or unleash disastrous social turmoil. Yet another of these coordinated-looking propaganda barrages warn us of the danger. These headlines are correct, but about the wrong subject.