Not the end of work, but the end of the American working class. The present is a huge number of people just barely making it, or not making it. The American future is more of that. Huge numbers of old poor people with no pensions. This is inevitable, since we now have a huge number of working age people with no pensions.

If the policy changes the author outlines are needed to avoid this, we're in big trouble. Because they are nowhere near happening.