[munificent]

> I'm not saying those things aren't valuable, or that humans can't express social and spiritual value in those ways, but that human value doesn't only exist there.

This sounds sort of like a "God of the gaps" argument.

Yes, we could say that humanity is left to express itself in the margins between the things machines have automated away. As automation increases its capabilities, we just wander around looking for some untouched back-alley or dark corner the robots haven't swept through yet and do our dancing and poetry slams there until the machines arrive forcing us to again scurry away.

But at that point, who is the master, us or the machines?

[rolha-capoeira]

What we still get paid to do is different than what we're still able to do. I'm still able to knit a sweater if I find it enjoyable. Some folks can even do it for a living (but maybe not a living wage)

[mattgreenrocks]

If this came to pass, the population would be stripped of dignity pretty much en masse. We need to feel competent, useful, and connected to people. If people feel they have nothing left, then their response will be extremely ugly.