So guys, we're setting the endgame of capitalism here, most just don't realize it yet. In the early days, human labor was required for companies to be profitable - they needed people to man the plows, work the lines, etc. As long as humans added value to the equation, humans benefited from capitalism.
Now, humans in the developed world are a liability. Look at how money is made off humans today in the USA. Make health care so expensive that few can afford it. Create insurance programs that require people to place bets that they will get sick. If they don't? System wins. If they do? Well, change the system so that their treatment isn't covered anyway!
Raise prices on everything while shrinking portions. Diminish quality in the name of saving costs. People running out of money to spend? That's ok - just let them spend money they don't have (credit cards, etc). Set up a system that makes people go into debt just to own a place to live. House prices crash due to rotten bankers? Pffft, who cares about the little guy!
To get a good job, you need a college education, right? Make people go into a LIFE of debt to get that education. Outsource the jobs anyway. There we go again - extracting wealth from people that DOES. NOT. EXIST. The debt we are forced into lines the pockets of the oligarchs.
At least in the USA, humans have become a detriment to profit. They remove more value than they add. I understand that humans need to spend money in order for capitalism to work. I understand that people might think that disenfranchising the entire USA public will end poorly ("If nobody has money to spend, how will companies still profit?"). There are BILLIONS of people in the developing world. Their economies will boom in the near future. Those people will provide the growth. The developed world offers little growth in comparison. "They" just need to keep us content while it all goes down.
The part to stress is that it's all going to happen VERY VERY quickly. When a company realizes that a product is no longer profitable, they stop producing/selling it ASAP. First world people are no longer profitable to them. Think about what that implies.