Well yes, technology improvements that mean humans can work less are only a good thing if you have an economic system that actually prioritises general wellbeing over enriching a tiny percentage of the population.
Americans are the most fucked because the majority of the public view socialism and adjacent philosophy as being bad, despite really being the only ideologies with any real answers for what happens to people that can't work for a living, that isn't just them dying.
Isn't this meme the wrong way round?
Joseph Gordon Levitt's character is the charlatan in the film