So Vonnegut's Playing Piano is getting here faster and faster. Only in the book each parking attendant booth or cash register had a ten person crews employed there just for sake of having 0% population without job ;). Actually, I do want to hear about it from you guys/gals: what do you think of Vonnegut's world and its viability in light of articles like this one? In case you did not read Playing Piano or other books in this setting, it is a world that got automated to such insane level that even engineers jobs were starting to become automated and people without skills were given a job that would cost more to automate than use people. This resulted in a crew of about 20 people called to fix one pothole or similar problems. If I recall correctly in his setting there was even a tax that boiled down to "you did not invent enough busy work to employ people" that was so high that companies went along.