White Collar Robots

Paul Krugman has two posts up about our post-human future or - more precisely - discussing how now computers are displacing white collar workers. Chris Bertram makes the obvious point the real issue is distribution of benefits; however, in the comments someone shows up to defend the idea that in the future we will all be service workers, except for those of us whose service work has been roboticized, and -- when called on the dystopia -- gets all mad because some elite or another has dared to insult service workers. It's like there's a set of talking  points defending a world that no sensible person wants to live in.