[sionisrecur]

I don't see it as that much of a problem. It's like washing machines taking away people's job of washing clothes, what are they gonna do with their time now? Maybe something more productive.

[chucky_z]

… something more productive than art?

that’s quite a productive thing. art has tremendous value to society.

why don’t we automate the washing machine more instead of automating the artist?

[whiplash451]

Washing machines and roombas were the low hanging fruits in the real world.

Automating more in the real world is much (much) harder than grabbing the low-hanging fruits in the digital world.

[echoangle]

Well we already automated all the easy stuff (washing machines for example), and now we’re automating more stuff as we get better at it.

[bamboozled]

Because some companies stumbled on this treasure first. Need to milk immediately.

[cubefox]

We really have a problem once there are no more jobs left for us humans, and only the people who own capital (stocks, real estate etc) will be able to earn money from dividends.

[ddtaylor]

> We really have a problem once there are no more jobs left for us humans

What is the required amount of labor humans should have to do?

[krapp]

The amount required to pay rent on their continued survival, which in a capitalist society, and excluding members of the capitalist class, will never be zero.