Right.
When you think about it, most employment everywhere is makework already. The primary and secondary sectors need less and less people to produce more and more and this labor surplus led to the creation of the modern teiriary sector. Crap like call-centers,fast food, wal-mart greeters is basically pointless makework that is a symptom of having lots of extra people and very little for them to do. In less developed nations without much of a service sector, you have extended families where only a handful of members work to provide for a family that does nothing but domestic chores or tending to goats and similar make-work and this is perfectly normal and acceptible there.
The problem with right-wing thinking is they believe a massively growing world economy can provide meaningful work to anybody who wants it and effectively end poverty, but the problem is that such an economy would implode when resources become sufficiently scarce. Really, any and all models of modern economies run into the problem of resource scarcity, down the timeline eventiually.
So, really, industrialized society has this problem with having an excess of people, a shortage of work and a finite amount of energy and resources to sustain it. It seems doomed to collapse unless science figures out said infinite-energy-machine so industries have so much cheap energy available they can turn red sand into white sand, to extract every stray iron atoms out of it to meet ever-increasing demand for steel for an industrialized economy.
The world population along with the economy of resource consumption will just have to shrink dramatically and there is a real lack of moral, political or philosophical willpower to allow/make that to happen, or industrialized society as we know it will simply be impossible to continue.