"The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their ha

"The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger” Take, for example, a telemarketer selling junk. Maybe they took the job because some ruling class wants them to not be productive and happy with free time, as the article claims. Or maybe, just maybe, they do the job because they can make money doing it and someone else can make money employing them to do it.