You have just described the lives of most humans for all of recorded history. Seriously -- not being sarcastic. Subsistence agriculture does not provide a secur

You have just described the lives of most humans for all of recorded history. Seriously -- not being sarcastic. Subsistence agriculture does not provide a secure life, and (more recently) neither does working 14-hour days in a factory. And a lot of the surplus wealth produced by that labor went to.... wars and luxury for the wealthy. None of this is new.