>"Protecting" people from AI doing their jobs is literally encouraging them work for no reason - it is pointless, wasteful and there are better equilibriums to aim for.

Exactly zero of the AI bros who believe they're going to push us into a workless utopia have even began to tell us about how we're all supposed to survive without work or being born obscenely rich.

You may not be aware, but today in 2025 the overwhelming majority of Americans rely on work for survival. They trade time for money, and use that to pay for things like housing or health care or food. How does one acquire these things if they cannot trade their time anymore, in a society that fully believes that even giving a child $1 for lunch money the moral equivalent to the worst atrocities and horrors of Soviet and Chinese socialism?