A major fault line in the current economic system is the concept of &#x27;right to work&#x27;.  The current structure presumes that the right to receive a proportion of economic goods of a society should be strongly associated with employment.  But with most jobs are already meaningless from the viewpoint of economic productivity, the &#x27;right to work&#x27; ethic concentrates power in the hands of the managerial classes in charge of job placement, who are very good at inventing new ways to pretend that this is all economically beneficial.<p>The truly horrendous problem with all of this is that our standard of living is statistically quite high so the system is sustainable for a long while, until it eventually collapses under it&#x27;s own weight of pointlessness.