> He thinks that white collar work will become more like factory work, with AI agents used for end-to-end optimization.

Yeah, let’s replace every kind of human work (planning, counselling, engineering, research, plain everything), and let us make them all unemployed. And let only the owners of the tech make money.

Well if this new tech served all makind by sharing the profit, it would be like utopia. But these greedy oligarchs won’t share a single bit of the wealth that’s generated by tech. And we‘ll have tech oligarchs, as the former greek finance minister have written in his book.