More money concentrated with less people. Yet standard of living is high and getting higher. Things are cheap but people's time is more expensive. Only mega rich entities can afford to pay for people's time. Low wage jobs are not needed because making things is so cheap.

Imagine a world where things are almost free (consumables) because people are not needed to make them (automation). Entities that own production are fantastically rich. People demand a higher standard of living which is met primarily by a decrease in the cost of consumables, not so much by an increase in wages.

Any task that can increase production is highly valued because the leverage is so large. Since things are cheap (robot arms) the value is in controlling them (robot software) - or more generally jobs for creating more automation and driving down costs are valued so much more than jobs where people make things directly.

Question: what is the economic value of CPAN? How much value has been produced by a chunk of COBOL that has been processing bank transactions for 30 years? Compare that to the cost of writing it.

Booking.com can afford to pay an army of programmers very high salaries to sit there and produce virtually nothing.

Question: what is the financial cost of context switching in a preemptive OS? Determine the amount of CPU cycles dedicated to managing context switches as a percentage of all CPU activity. Could your hardware budget be cut in half without context switching? Example: FPGA financial trading hardware.

Computation is the encoding of thought in a lossless format. People are needed for thinking and the creation of a process (modern AI does not replace this), and it's then encoded in software where it can be executed and scaled almost indefinitely.