> I'm always confused by this argument. Practically every day on HN there are articles about problems that it would be great if more people were working on. Replication crisis? Aging infrastructure? Global warming? Cancer research? Environmental destruction? Food scarcity? Documentation and bug hunting in software? Taking care of frameworks? Early childhood education? Heck, even beyond all the problems on Earth, there are plenty of people who want to work on things like sending people to Mars.

Almost everything you listed there requires high skill/education levels. What about service workers/low-skill jobs (y'know, the things that would be replaced by automaton)? I'm pretty sure they're the people GP was talking about.