>So we are supposed to give people purpose in life? No, you're supposed to acknowledge that "purpose in life" is far more immaterial and nebulous than our ingr

>So we are supposed to give people purpose in life? No, you're supposed to acknowledge that "purpose in life" is far more immaterial and nebulous than our ingrained concepts of professionalism and our ingrained cultural work-ethic usually admit, and that if the economy doesn't demand someone's labor, it doesn't affect their innate value as a human being integrated into the same broad moral ecosystem as all other human beings. Sure, those people could be engineering vastly improved medicines or train systems. They could be painting houses or planting gardens. They could even be taking care of children. But society has decided, of its own free will and through its own mechanisms, not to allocate living wages to doing those things. Complaining that broke and unemployed people don't form (uncapitalized) work teams to perform pro-bono labor on behalf of Society and the Nation and Humanity simply isn't fair game, even if the things you'd like them to work on seem necessary or beneficial to you. If you think the Greater Glory of Something is so important, pay for it.