The fundamental problem with the world today is that there are too many people it. Just as with anything when something is less scarce it is less valuable, all

The fundamental problem with the world today is that there are too many people it. Just as with anything when something is less scarce it is less valuable, all else held equal. Obviously hunter gatherers or even agricultural societies had virtually zero NEETs. Human labour was more or less fully utilised until the last century. Now we are able to provide basic human wants and needs using fewer people.