This only makes sense if you assume that the value of humans to other humans is solely their economic output. Which is certainly how our society is structured,

This only makes sense if you assume that the value of humans to other humans is solely their economic output. Which is certainly how our society is structured, but, does it have to be? Can we admit that we basically have a developmental trauma as a species and learn to live the sake of living, instead of for the sake of being "useful"?