Another anthem to the 'everybody has to work all their life or something is wrong' theme. The 'everybody has a job' nonsense ignore the slide from professional

Another anthem to the 'everybody has to work all their life or something is wrong' theme. The 'everybody has a job' nonsense ignore the slide from professional to service industry, where the former office manager or technical editor is now slinging burgers. But hey! It's a job, the employment statistics make armchair economists comfortable, so all's right with the world I guess. In the 1950's folks wrote about how automation was going to lift the burden of labor from our shoulders, so we could lead better lives. Now that it's happening I hear nothing but panic and denial. "We have to get everybody back to slaving away! Or the economy will collapse!"