Artificial intelligence will destroy 'laptop class' workers

[hunter]

43. Society would still progress without superstar artists, actors, athletes, etc..

I'd argue that any artist who gets trapped in some crap job related to their art is LESS likely to pursue their actual art.

Most of those kids hoping to be superstar football or basketball players are likely to have their dreams shattered. Same with any other sort of artist.

Ideally as an artist you find the means to pursue your art without compromise. You don't get assimilated into money making machines run by asshole billionaires who, in any sane civilization would be taxed out of existence or possibly placed in prison to protect the rest of us from their predation.

If we weren't all clueless fucks we'd demand thirty hour work weeks so we could all pursue our own arts. Our 21st century technology has given us all the tools we need to create that kind of society, we just have to apply them.

As it is, most of us suffer work that is not making the world a better or brighter place, and for no good reason. We live in a society that stifles curiosity and creativity.

That's one of the reasons I don't support advertising supported television. I simply don't see any television advertising in my daily life. No broadcast, no cable, no satellite, no streaming with ads. It no longer exists within my personal universe. I've seen too many artists sucked into that wormhole who never came out the other side.

I tend to think any job that can be automated should be automated. The problem has always been that the benefits of this automation are not distributed equally among us. The wealth doesn't "trickle down" to those whose jobs have been automated. In a better world things like comfortable basic housing, healthy food, appropriate medical care, and education wouldn't require anyone to accept soul-crushing work in exchange for mere survival.