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We're all "forced" to work because living requires resources. This is not an effect of civilization - wild animals work harder for their livings, and have nasty brutish lives to boot.

If the corporate programmer is willing to live a very frugal life (See Mr. Money Mustache, Jacob Lundfisker, etc.), then it won't take him or her very long at all to build up a 6-month cost-of-living fund. Perhaps it takes working three months to six months? (I know it's possible because I've done it.) And I'm not sure it's the job of society to support artists in their art independent of its value to society. At least I know I'm not interested in supporting it in my taxes. So I'm not so sure these examples are persuasive.

However, I do agree that it will become much harder to get people to do 'shit' jobs. One side effect is that it would give a serious additional kick towards automation, and so long as BI is implemented, that's good thing in terms of elevating the human condition.