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You're looking at it backwards. We, as a society, can stop wasting people on this nonsense, and find something worthwhile for them to do.

(Yes, and we have some responsibility to make it possible for them to find a new way to earn a living, training them if needed.)

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Anecdotally, I see the situation in France (I'm from there). Unemployment is always high.

People have great healthcare, but they are still struggling with mininum income service jobs. They won't be ruined by a cancer diagnosis though.

I don't think any western countries has figured out how to expand the middle class in recent times without heavy subsidies (in the US, we are effectively subsidizing those jobs with our high costs)

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