Huge amounts of effort go to feeding our desires, and to feeding our fears, but it actually doesn't take much to meet our needs.

Only 2% of our efforts as a society go to getting food out of the ground.

The reason to have a job, to own property, to earn and spend money, to reproduce and fight in wars, it seems, is to maintain a valid stake in the whole game lest your masters designate you an undesireable.

For said master the more viable the alternatives to humans become, the more all those excess humans start to look like a liability.