Evolution of the workplace

Hello,

Saw this post about 'SISI" Single income, Single Identity & how its such a bad & backward thing etc...

Not that i completely disagree with this considering how things stand but i cant help thinking that these circumstances are created by people who have the power to do what they want but are less accountable than say governments & judiciary. Corporate execs or Top Management or Board of directors sometimes comes accross as non human entities that make arbitiary decisions, not caring a whit what happens to the employee on the ground but these people are nowhere to be found in corporate events, over there its always, "we are a strong , multicultural & diverse family".

Anyhow, sorry for the off topic rant, i wanted to write about SISI - if you put things in historical perspective, isnt this what people have been doing for centuries , people were "hunters & foragers", then they were "farmers" , "smiths", "bakers" "soldiers" etc etc, even in fairly recent times, you learned a trade and you worked in that trade. Then came highschool & college, you got a basic education in highschool & you chose your 'trade' through college, based on your degree you got your trade & you worked your way up.

And now this is a bad thing? leading to stagnation? to quote the post i read "If things are coming easy and you are getting comfortable, you are getting trapped into survival mode" so its no longer OK to be comfortable? getting comfortable means eventually you will be 'trapped' in 'suvival mode' ?

The workplace is evolving, but who decides how it evolves and who makes sure that our learning processes / educational institutions etc prepare us for this evolved workplace? And more importantly, who makes sure that this evolution is being driven towards optimizing human potenial instead of optimizing the corporate bottom line?

Came across another article recently, a company planning to make hundreds of robots to replace human employees, another article touted a figure of 20 million jobs to be lost, so anyone asked these companies what their plans are for the people get laid off, cause 20 million laid off people is everyones problem & will effect everyone eventually in one way or the other if 20 million jobs or sources of income are also not being created in order to offset these changes