Have we mechanized and computerized ourselves into obsolescence? Yes, and it's destroying the mid...

1. Argument: High income jobs, that require tremendous education, are the jobs that are available.

1.1. Evidence: Technology has taken over middle skills jobs like clerical work and bookkeeping. This dramatically affects the middle class.

1.2. Evidence: Creative, high paying jobs like engineering or lawyers are jobs that have yet to be strongly impacted by technology.

1.3. Evidence: Low income and labor jobs remain because computers/robots have a hard time performing those tasks.

2. Counter Argument: Some middle class fields are growing. Such as a radiology technician or medical paraprofessional jobs.

2.1. Evidence: They involve tasks that cannot readily be unbundled without a substantial drop in quality.

3. Argument: There is a class polarization in many US cities because of computerization.

3.1. Evidence: Employment has risen in both high wage professional and technical jobs and in low wage, labor service occupations.

4. Counter Argument: This has happened before in history.

4.1. Evidence: Luddites staged a machine-trashing rebellion in the early 19th century.

5. Counter Argument: New products and services are created.

5.1. Evidence: People that lose their jobs because of technological advancement create new products and create new services that promotes job growth.

6. Argument: A "massive" amount of workers, from many different fields, at the same time are being replaced by computers and automated machines.

6.1. Evidence: Computers and their software are becoming cheaper than labor.

6.1.1. Counter Argument: Computers have to be programed by humans. Which promotes growth in computer science.