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> it's just that those sectors aren't the ones making the profits.

Coincidentally - they're also the most competitive / not monopolies.

Drones, automated harvesting, self driving trucks, software etc. will make their way into those industries eventually.

If wage growth isn't coming organically for whatever reason, then some form of wage subsidy will need to occur. Or, you just have large swaths of lower middle class people in a growing state of contempt for the city dwelling elites.

All of those technologies had extremely low investment due to the competition with an oft-abused migrant worker class sacrificing for their families. This was short term thinking because the human race would have been better off with more investment here.

> Well, I'm not sure UBI really solves the issue.

You can't just say that and then not say why you think that.