Who knows Mike, but I can tell you one thing for certain -- high skill jobs are safer than low skill jobs. You suggest programmers could be replaced by A.I. eventually. Maybe so, but not today. Who knows what the future will bring, but I can tell you what the present brings, and that is automation at the orchard, the waffle house, and everywhere else someone can be replaced by a machine. There is no stopping this evolution, and pushing "living wages" simply speeds it up as you make labor more expensive.