Many data points to ponder, wondering if they connect at all, in no particular order:

• The definition of work
• The definition of meaningfulness and its varieties
• The percentage of what we currently call our species who participate in the social framework we call the economy
• The percentage of what we currently call our species who participate as “workers” in the social framework we call the economy
• The percentage of what we currently call our species who participate as “workers” in the form of “employees” in the social framework we call the economy
• The percentage of what we currently call our species who participate as “workers” in the form of “employers” in the social framework we call the economy
• The definition of fully/partially employed
• The definition of [independent] [sub]contractor
• The definition of living wage
• The alternative to participating in the economy in the form of a [non]fulfilling life
• What does independently living off the land mean when extraterritorial entities claim watch over the land on which you live and demand their definition of recompense from you for watching over/caring for you in the form of services/physical infrastructure you may or may not use?
• How many people have no comprehension of the following statement?: “Citizens of a nation demand that their employers must pay the citizens as employees no less than $15/hour to manufacture products/services profitably.”
• What does employable mean?
• What does poverty mean?
• What [kind of] right does a person have who lives on land which an extraterritorial entity claims watch over, for that person, to claim the extraterritorial entity provide equitable access to education/employment opportunities for that person that other people have created for themselves with or without [in]direct support by the extraterritorial entity?
• Is there such a thing as a perpetual cycle of poverty/technological* illiteracy?
• Is there such a thing as a perpetual cycle of wealth?
• How much accumulated wealth is too much?
• Is there a fair argument that no family/corporate entity has lasted virtually forever?
• How many people can’t or don’t want to work in the economy?
• How many people want to work in the economy but can’t find/create work?
• Why are some people content devoting much of their waking energy to working in jobs for others?
• Why are some people driven to work for themselves and/or have others work for them?
• At what number of employees and average wage can a company in a particular industry compete locally/nationally/regionally/globally and still remain in business (i.e., generate enough profit to operate (assuming that intentionally operating at a loss is not a goal for this question))?
• Should the un/underemployed be broken down by physical/mental characteristics/categories for problem-solving purposes?
• Should the impact of a slower/smaller economy on the environment weigh into keeping wages/employment below capacity?
• What level of disruption by one group of people will have to take place on another group of people and/or the extraterritorial entity which watches over them both to encourage/introduce change desired by the first group but not necessarily the second?
• Will the impact of sleepiness stop the questions being written by this author on this one?

*Language is as much a technology as the logical combination of ones and zeroes that create this WYSIWYG user interface on the Internet.