...who stated way back in the Industrial Revolution (in his seminal work, Suicide) that people would become desperate and do themselves in as a result of automated labor eliminating their jobs and therefore their ability to provide for themselves and their families. Not only that, but their psychological identities are tied to "what they do for a 'living'." So much so, in fact, that people's family names often indicated what they did as a trade or craft for generations (known as occupational surnames):
Baker, Smith, Miller, Hunter, Schreiber (Ger. scriber, or writer; roughly equivalent to English Clark, for "clerk"
, Carpenter, Barber, Gard(e/i)ner, Cooper (a barrel-maker), Tanner (leather-maker), Butcher, Butler, Brew(st)er, Schumacher (Shoemaker)...
Wikipedia has a heck of a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Occupational_surnames
Mass suicides may simply ensue if we don't have mass starvation first. Durkheim was right -- but so was good old Bucky Fuller:
http://buckyworld.me/
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