You're absolutely right! I just came back from a conference a few weeks back in San Francisco where the theme was Artificial Intelligence and Automation...and the impacts to the workforce.
The net takeaway from the conference was that more and more repetitive jobs will likely be automated in the not so distant future, but that the non-repetitive labor, will not go away...so it just means that the market will have to adjust their skillset for what the industry needs.
They also said that productivity needs to increase if we are going to keep up with the demand needed to maintain constant growth. So it's not necessarily that we need more people with skills, it's that we need to figure out how we become more productive with the skilled folks that we have already.
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply...great context.
-JackThaR1ppir