I think that is because it is a non-issue or has been a non-issue for a very long time despite the hype. Since the 1960s there has been a literature on the idea that automation would lead to widespread unemployment and it didn’t happen. The kind of people who are really qualified to talk on the subject are the people who seem most in demand.
If you do look at case studies of major transformation or work getting worse you don’t see IT being central to it. For instance, you don’t see longshoreman slinging bags of sugar with hooks but instead you see a longshore(wo)man lifting a whole shipping container with a big crane. In cases like medicine, teaching, etc. that some would say are becoming awful jobs one could say they are awful jobs because there is not enough innovation, it is not possible to invest in capital to make workers more productive but rather the one knob you have to turn is tightening the screws on workers to lower costs by nickel and dimming them.
Not to say the future is like the past. Since Adam Smith it has usually been the case that trade ‘floats most boats’ but after 2000 the rapid industrialization of China happened quickly enough that manufacturing workers in the US wound up much worse. You might make the case that this will finally happen w/ automation after 60 years of handwringing.
If you do look at case studies of major transformation or work getting worse you don’t see IT being central to it. For instance, you don’t see longshoreman slinging bags of sugar with hooks but instead you see a longshore(wo)man lifting a whole shipping container with a big crane. In cases like medicine, teaching, etc. that some would say are becoming awful jobs one could say they are awful jobs because there is not enough innovation, it is not possible to invest in capital to make workers more productive but rather the one knob you have to turn is tightening the screws on workers to lower costs by nickel and dimming them.
Not to say the future is like the past. Since Adam Smith it has usually been the case that trade ‘floats most boats’ but after 2000 the rapid industrialization of China happened quickly enough that manufacturing workers in the US wound up much worse. You might make the case that this will finally happen w/ automation after 60 years of handwringing.