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[afransen]

That's not my point. My point is that this so called "progress"* is zeroing in on just about every aspect of life all at the same time. In a vacuum, if you removed one so-called "pointless" profession, there would still be others. But again, the tech bros don't want that. They're trying to make it so that machines are better than humans at everything. When that happens, according to your parameters, all professions will be pointless. Hooray!

It's really disturbing how so many people openly celebrate this type of "progress". Progress, as defined in the 2020s, refers to the enshittification of life for non-billionaires, and nothing more.

Regardless of what techbros want, professions won't all become 'pointless' overnight. AI doesn't really automate jobs, it automates tasks. Jobs are collections of tasks. Some tasks are more harder to automate than others. Jobs where some of those tasks remain difficult to automate will continue, but will tend to become more productive. Perhaps all tasks will eventually be automatable to superhuman levels, but that will take quite some time and won't be uniform. And if we get to the point where all tasks can be produce autonomously at low cost, we will have material abundance. The problem of allocation becomes political. Smashing the looms won't help.