I feel like I am repeating myself, both those situations are irrelevant to your original point. I agree we can try to make things more efficient, and society can improve how it redistributes wealth.

You seem to be saying we should distribute any gains to artists. I am saying that we distribute those gains to working people, and let the artists do their thing in their free time.

If we start getting to the point where there is not enough “work” to go around, then we can follow the scandi practice of reducing everyone’s working hours. Although admittedly that doesn’t address the problem that there is an unlimited need for highly skilled people (the drive behind the power law of income distribution and why the more highly paid professionals have no spare time).

UBI is a lovely concept, but unfortunately in the very major examples I have already seen of UBI (retirement being the biggest example), I don’t see much return in scientific or creative output.

PS: this is a fantastic read about the US health system: https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...