3. What happens, when we find out that everybody's job can be hyper-specialized and broken down so robots can do them... which leads to >95% unemployment?
In such a society, 95% of the people will get to do whatever they want, rather than working for a living. I don't see the problem.
Too often, the assumption that near-100% employment is desirable goes unchallenged. We're people, not ants.
But in our current schema of society, it would indicate that 95% of the people would be on some sort of subsistence form of government aid.
In that case, they will do what they want, as long as it doesn't include costs. That seems like a very dead society, with people depressed about no work and no money.
They would probably operate largely outside the modern, formal economy. Grow their own food, do odd jobs for pay, solicit spare change, etc. Kind of like homeless people do now.
In such a society, 95% of the people will get to do whatever they want, rather than working for a living. I don't see the problem.
Too often, the assumption that near-100% employment is desirable goes unchallenged. We're people, not ants.