[derangedHorse]

> Ridiculously high wages for jobs whose explicit purpose is to make human workers(including those partaking in those jobs) obsolete

I would say they are making the current cost of one's labor "obsolete". Most jobs are like this. If you work for yourself, you're trying to make the cost of your labor obsolete in place of cheaper work. If you work for a company, the company will be trying to make the cost of your labor obsolete in place of cheaper work. Any value captured in the arbitrage of product price and employee pay is seen as the value of management.

[johnnyanmac]

>I would say they are making the current cost of one's labor "obsolete".

That's how it builds to making a market cost obsolete. Especially when the explicit goal is near 100% removal of human labor.

It's like fishing, do it slowly enough (like the dozens of millenia of humanity before the industrial revolution) and fish will repopulate just fine. Do it too fast and you drive fish to extinction. They want to make labor extinct.