alt Hacker NewsThat is the question society is currently asking with articles like this one.
Given that (allegedly) "your salary" won't be the answer for a significant chunk of the population soon, and all that money will instead (allegedly) go to the bosses doing the firings, and the AI companies they employ instead.
We get a view of this taken to its logical extreme in the final Resident Evil film featuring Milla Jovovich.
The entire Earth's population dead, with evil corporate board members holding votes underground as to who gets to be the CEO of the company.