While not providing anything like a solution to the central issue here, I want to note that it looks likely to be the middle classes that get hollowed out first—human labour to do all kinds of physical tasks is likely to be valued for longer than various kinds of desk-based tasks, because scaling up and deploying robotics to replace them would take significant time, whereas scaling up the automation of desk-based tasks can be relatively quick.
While not providing anything like a solution to the central issue here, I want to note that it looks likely to be the middle classes that get hollowed out first—human labour to do all kinds of physical tasks is likely to be valued for longer than various kinds of desk-based tasks, because scaling up and deploying robotics to replace them would take significant time, whereas scaling up the automation of desk-based tasks can be relatively quick.