Great essay Audi-P: Resort cities in AZ, just passed laws and made space for workers to live in their cars. They are also doing away with child labor laws. The problem rising serfdom is more complex than the wage structure, but restoring the Countervailing Power of Labor is a good start. AI will make large segments of the population completely irrelevant, so we should start now enact a guaranteed income. SERFS UP!!!!!

PS: As barely a teen I worked in the very first McDonald's when the brothers still owned it on E-Street in San Bernardino. They paid us below minimum wage (a training wage) about a buck per hour with a few free burgers per week. At the end each training period they would fire us and hire us back again at the training wage. However, to this day these jobs are still designed for pimply faced kids who want to buy a new bike.