Okay so sorry if my thoughts aren't so coherent but I just always think like we have so much technology now a days that could replace tons and tons of jobs. Literally robots that could replace whole work forces. But because we won't settle on some form of Universal Basic Income or re-allocate the funds from the robots “wages” into higher paid positions for the humans that will work we're stuck in this endless cycle of “the machines will take our jobs”
Example: at a store if you have 4 self checkout machines and only 1 cashier running them all, instead of allocating the wages of those 3 other cashier's wages into your profit margins, why not just increase the pay of the cashier? (Ideally by 3x since now they're doing the work of 3 additional people)
We're literally being held back from a future of leisure and/or a future where people can pursue a dream job with financial benefits because of our antiquated need to be “productive workers”.