Likewise, the glut of minimum wage labor (and the gradual transition of most of the populace into low level service workers) and the lack of well paying careers outside tech going forward, with the propensity to attempt to automate all of it as soon as we are able, means it will keep getting worse.

Point me to any use we will have in the next ten years for just a human being without any specialized training that will see significant enough gains to offset all these obviously continuing declines in workforce participation and available work. And even beyond that - how many tasks are we going to have for anyone but programmers? Is any industry going to grow rather than shrink?

We are going to try our hardest to automate as much of every industry there is as we can. We won't eliminate your doctor in 10 years, but Watson and similar AI will replace 90% of his job, so that one doctor can handle 10 times as many patients as they do now. You might insist on a meatbag barista, but once a barista bot can sense your phone is nearby and makes your coffee for you before you even get to the counter just the way you like it at any location anywhere, most people will much prefer that convenience, and the cheaper coffee is just a nice perk.

All professions are under threat - even programmers are being threatened, not the forward thinkers who found startups or push new ideas, but the cogs that work in big inefficient bureaucratic business software - it is often solving the same problem, that better languages, frameworks, and general solution are working to replace. Local IT admins have died an unsung death in the last five years as cloud infrastructure has taken over the industry, for example.