Pretty soon A.I will have taken over most jobs, so now we're reaching a point in human history where humans won't only not have to work, but there literally won't be jobs for the vast majority of people, that means people won't be “productive members” of society, making them basically useless in the eyes of the powers that be. Dr Harari talking about this:
“The biggest question in economics and politics of the coming decade will be what to do with all these useless people. The problem is more boredom…how will they find some sense of meaning in life, when they are basically meaningless, worthless?” – Source (at 4:13) At the world government summit that happened a few weeks ago even Elon Musk said:
“There'll be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot can't do better. What to do about mass unemployment? I think ultimately we'll have to have some kind of basic income, I don't think we're gonna have a choice…the much harder challenge is how will people then have meaning? If there's no need for your labor then, what's the meaning?”
People have been so deeply conditioned to define themselves by their jobs that when they don't have to work, they actually feel purposeless, and yet most of those people don't even like their jobs.