Are Jobs Inevitable?

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Listening to politicians, it sounds like job creation is the number one priority. Both in the USA as well as in the EU. The logic goes that everyone should have jobs and earn income so that they can spend the money in economy and collectively make economies grow again. Growing economies then allow banks to recapitalize, bad loans become good ones, uncertainties and insecurities will vanish, everything becomes as before again.
But let's stop and think about it a bit. Despite politicians thinking that people need jobs - do people actually need jobs?
In a Capitalistic society, via specialization, different people have different roles to fill. Some work in manufacturing, some in service business, some in the government. Supposedly they all contribute with something and by selling the products of their labor, they benefit from the productivity of others while giving them the excess productivity of their own labor. As a result, everyone supposedly wins, and the society as a whole becomes a busy ant-hill, everyone busy laboring with no time to stop and think about it all.
In such an ant-hill, specialization and exchange of production is facilitated by the usage of money. Product or service is exchanged for money, another product or service can be purchased for the money, person's labor gets compensated with money, and person can buy everything necessary to sustain themselves for that money.
But what is it that we really need to sustain ourselves? Definitely it is not money as money is just the medium of exchange for which we buy the sustenance. So money is not what we need but we need food, shelter, clothing, energy, furniture etc. And once the major items such as a home or furniture have been acquired, what remains is mostly food and energy.
Let's repeat this again: we need jobs to buy food and energy to sustain ourselves. And for other things if we want those other things. So what if there was a way to secure food without having to go to work to earn money? So that we would not need to go to the stores in order to buy food? Food that is shipped to us from big factory farms half way across the world?
What if there was local food readily available, in our own backyards?
If that was possible, the traditional pyramid structure in food production and society's setup would be eliminated. People would not need jobs to live, and to live well, perhaps much better than when having jobs that require commuting 10 hours a day and meeting their families only at bedtime? A huge layer of dead weight would be cut out of the picture. A huge amount of scarce energy resources would no longer be needed. People would have all that time available to think about their lives, and to actually enjoy their lives.
Or, in other words, we need backyard food production in order to not need the jobs that are not available anyway, as the ever-expanding economic model clearly can no longer be sustained anyway. We need backyard food production so that we could actually enjoy our lives and exit the misery of having the jobs that are being sold to us as a number one priority.