> Large portions of the population did not suddenly become lazy and lose all ambition. They're not engaged with the economy because they're losing the ability t

> Large portions of the population did not suddenly become lazy and lose all ambition. They're not engaged with the economy because they're losing the ability to engage. This is a global phenomenon, and it's getting worse and worse as tech makes most of the population increasingly irrelevant in the job market. Spot on. When media hypes up the automation as the doom for employment, they are ignoring the doom of employment already happening around them. The only country that seriously paying attention to this problem probably is China. CCP is at no time not paying attention to make everyone busy up doing something meaningful (probably more to the state's ends, less so to individual in the western sense).