At what price/cost point does having a worker versus a robot versus going online only (RadioShack.com) and not having a brick and mortar ANYWHERE cross? RadioShack died in the Brick and Mortar world because they kept pushing the cellphone crap too hard, and refused to innovate (and get innovative products in that other companies did not have), and became the K-Mart of the electronics world with higher prices.
If you want a job, you have to have an employer that can hire you, OR become an employer/consultant/freelancer yourself. The problem is that if you demand pay above what you are worth to the employer or company, you are not going to get hired. Companies need to make a profit because there are other costs in the system that are above the costs of either buying or producing a product, and the costs of the employees. If there is a store or business, unless it meets and works in a field during the daytime, there will be power, building, water and other costs on top of product/services costs and employee costs. Most employees think that their "pay" is the only thing that they are "costing" the employer, they are MASSIVELY wrong, as there are large costs in the insurance, taxes (and related), and other parts of the equation that the employee never sees. Sure, you can be a freelancer or consultant and keep your "costs" fairly low so that the majority of your "income" stays in the "take home" category, but still Taxes and other crap take a good chunk out of that.
If we could get rid of Federal and most state and local taxes, then things would work a LOT better. The FedGov needs to go back to providing for Safety and Domestic Tranquility alone, and paying for that by Tariffs. The states need to go back to MINIMAL governance. And as far as "Infrastructure", make it pay to play, where you pay a yearly fee to drive on the roads, and a different yearly fee to use the interstate. This way you don't have to pay for something that you don't use. Right now we pay a CRAPLOAD of money in taxes to have it go to things that we don't use ourselves, and in a lot of cases don't agree with. And the overall goal of TPTB now is to take in a much money as possible, and grow themselves and the swamp in general as fast as possible. It isn't going to stop anytime soon unless a LOT of people stand up, and as long as the free gravy train is continuing to stop by....