Let's not forget the fundamental purpose of jobs. It is to limit crime. Before the modern age with its companies and jobs, rich people walked the streets with

Let's not forget the fundamental purpose of jobs. It is to limit crime. Before the modern age with its companies and jobs, rich people walked the streets with swords, daggers and pistols. Even so they could not fully protect themselves from pickpockets who slashed pockets with a knife to liberate a few coins or even just a silk handkerchief. Average people banded together to take down the rich folk when they could, killing in order to steal. Some rich people realized that if they distributed cash to the average people under the guise of jobs, there would be no more motive to rob, steal and plunder. As a result, we have our modern and relatively peaceful world. Unfortunately, the rich of today have forgotten the lesson learned by their forebears, and once again we are devolving into chaos and crime.