Who pays the otherwise bored individuals to pursue some scientific question (another area where big-data, analytical computer programs and their small number of programmers are taking over), or create some art, and why? The glorious “we do”, so that’s by taxes, and where does our income for those taxes come from? Everyone is on the dole?
That’s the big question we need to figure out. In a world where we quite simply don’t need people to have jobs how do we keep people alive and useful? Maybe everybody is on the dole. Or maybe thanks to 3D printers and automation it doesn’t matter. Don’t know. It’s an interesting world we’re entering. Could go many ways. But again, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle so pissing and moaning and whining about it ain’t gonna fix nothing. This IS where the world is going, figure out how to make it not suck.