RE: Are people waking up to the fact that technological unemployment is a real thing?
I think full unemployment is what humanity has been working towards since we stopped being hunter gatherers tens of thousands of years ago. If we can have our technology basically render most of our need to work as redundant we will have achieved a great milestone in evolution.
What needs to change is the concept of a job. I don't mean producing some meaningful work (value), that will always exist, but the concept of the forty, or fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty hour week. How bizarre that the less actual work there is to do, with some people unable to find any paying occupation, is conversely represented by the balance of 'workers' who are forced to work ever longer hours, and do multiple roles, or even multiple jobs.
I suppose this reads like some kind of socialist manifesto, but politics is far from my mind, this is merely about pragmatism. There is no sense in one third of people working too hard, while two thirds look on jealously for a lack of resources and self respect.
I don't know how the square can be made circular, but perhaps MANNA can aid the transition.