That's the thing, we were all supposed to be living luxurious lives, instead we're working 60 hour work weeks. And the elite think that more of that should be in store for us, you know because the economy just isn't doing all that well. Mainly because they are busy disrupting everything and automating it, using massive piles of capitals they have amassed on our backs to coerce us to work harder and produce more with less money -- productivity.

With automation they need less of our work, so we should work more for less, while the capital they have amassed does most of the work through automation.

Logically nothing we do as a species makes sense unless looked through the logic of economics, consumption, and production. It's a system with its own logic and we are so conditioned to think in its terms that we can think of no other way of organizing people and/or work.

The best days for America was the American Dream as George Carlin said you have to dreaming to believe it. It was simply a hope that more of that money would trickle down to pretty much anyone if they worked hard enough.

That hope is no longer there. No matter which way you frame it.