The worldwide middle class is actually growing.

[HughBeaumont]

11. You kind of need people with disposable income to buy products.

If labor "gets too expensive" (the term of the classically liberal, libertarian and Republican), it's not like millions upon millions of corporate-exploited serfs will be able to make up ground. Got a lot of under-earning and debt-strapped millennials that can't buy big ticket items. Laugh this phenomenon off at your own peril. Great future you're giving to the people who are eventually going to take this earth over.

Also, championing automation is a hilarity with the punchline being your precious capitalism teetering on the edge of a cliff without a rope or a GMI to alleviate the millions that will be permanently without income. You know, those purchasers some of y'all claim are not needed.

But hey, back to your regularly scheduled libertarian water carrying . . .