Off on a tangent here, but I also see it in way that David Graeber describes: "the rise of the bullshit job", which in many ways makes me think about the fact that a lot of it is not far from privatized basic income.

A lot of us are being paid handsomely, but are we _really_ adding value to society by any other means that just being consumer machines?

I find it interesting to ponder these things. =)