[marshallp]

That's not "rich". That's called working for the man. It is depressing because of the jobs out there are bullshit jobs. No one needs to be stacking shelves at walmart or the gap - people can click on amazon.

If you take a real look around much of the economy is this b.s. burger flipping and shelf stacking, and much of the rest are the welfare queens otherwise known as government employees and corporate managers. There is such an epic wastage of the world's human resources that anyone in the know would cry themselves to sleep. Occupy Wall Street is nothing in comparison to the scale of the problem.

[nitrogen]

Though your post was probably downvoted for its unrealistic pessimism, I have to agree with the idea that much of humanity's labor is wasted. The question remains, however, what do people do with their time, and how do they feed themselves, when their labor is entirely replaced by machines?

[tayl0r]

That is the zillion dollar question right there. We're facing it now and it's only going to get worse.

The economic system we have in place now seems like it breaks down when a portion of your population cannot join the workforce in any sort of useful fashion.

I don't think you can solve this problem with the current ideologies of the common American. It goes against the "core values" of many Americans so any attempt to change the system will be met with much opposition.