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adjl posted...

The problem isn't AI taking over all jobs, though. It's AI taking over some jobs, so there are still plenty of people able to buy stuff, but also plenty of people starving to death because they can't work.

This is why UBI is needed in the immediate future. It won't be necessary in a robo-communist utopia where money no longer has any meaning, but there's a long way to go before then and the current powers that be are going to fiercely resist giving up that power (despite the fact that most of their jobs could be done pretty easily by AI).

I'm not going to argue against those points, but we have enough garbage entertainment to shift through as is, we don't need to mass produce even more garbage at an even faster rate. The world could stop making any kind of art or entertainment and we'd still have enough to keep people happy for a lifetime