Marx, Industrialism, and humanity

I thought we had a very interesting talk today. My favorite quote was when Dr. J said that because of capitalism we basically have to "put our humanity on the market and hope we can sell if for cheap enough to get a job".  This made me think about the nature of American mass industry. We currently live in a world where everything is created on a massive scale and in order to do this we have put the assembly line into practice in all areas (including school where we are teaching students the test instead of encouraging individual creativity). I believe this is a moral wrong. To elaborate we are sacrificing the most human part about us. Unlike animals we have a sense of self and an ability to make choices that as a result of capitalism has placed us into groups dictating our self worth as well as into mindless jobs where invention and individuality are not condoned. How did America get to this point where all but a select few are in a less severe form of the same slavery we tried to abolish. It makes me wonder what people could have accomplished by now if work/labor wasn't associated with such misery. Maybe people would enjoy working and things like cancer, autism, parkinson's would be cured by now. We have put a price on everything else and capitalism thinks it can put a price on humanity, the question is: Will we let it?  Hopefully no one in this class thinks that there humanity is worth a measly 7.25/hour.