Points at Replacing Middle Management with APIs and includes the Dead End Jobs Below the API Forbes chart.
Essentially what’s happening is that in a first phase middle management is replaced by a software system of APIs (i.e. machine-machine interfaces) and GUIs (i.e. machine-human interfaces), opening the doors for the second phase: a swift replacement of below the API jobs by machines. Increasingly, the only paying work left for humans will be the one of building the software.
Of course, clipping this at the end of 2025, paying humans to pay software is in a contentious situation.
Points at UBI as potential direction:
I think there should be nothing wrong with increased automation and rising efficiencies. Less work should be a good thing! However, this is going to play out well only if we stop demanding that everyone sacrifices their lives to do work that can be monetized—we need something like an unconditional basic income.