Percent of 'working-age' adults employed in 2050 in Europe and N. America

I have to wonder about the viability of either Europe or the United States in fifty years. My vote was 25% and I'm not even comfortable with that. When I say this though, I'm talking about "real" employment, not governmental or institutional. What is the value of laborers today? Is there any reason to expect them to become more valuable in this short a term of the future? To most governments, socialist and "democratic", at best they're a necessary evil, a raison d'etre, as it were. The biggest difference between the two viewpoints is whether they should be paid. And the driving force behind that is do we have more people than we really need? Maybe Mendeleyev was right? The only value I can see for freemen (and women) of the future is as consumers - terrible, isn't it, you are what you consume. I can easily see a short term future where you receive some form of compensation for what you use up, not for what you produce. Of course, there's always the future of "Soylent Green" where you're valued for dying and becoming fodder for those who remain.