What does an AI care for profit?
You are still assuming that there will be people involved in the supply chain or even the code writing on the software.
I’m not. Automation from beginning to end... That is where the author of the article sees things going and I agree with him. Once that genie is let out of the bottle, it will happen no matter how much the large corporations, governments, and change resistant may not want it to.
Some forms of work will survive — entertainment, sports, journalism, story-telling, boutique farming, law enforcement, travel and hospitality, and other things that a robot can’t do (that list will get smaller and smaller as time goes on) or that humans will want to do (write, paint, act, play, travel, work with the soil, craft their own ____). The motive for doing those things will be different though — a “want to” model instead of a “have to” model.
Good grief you’re sounding like a communist utopian, lol. People are going to work their butts off creating beautiful things to give away? No, they’re not. If there is no reward the creation will not be offered to the public, not even at the end of a gun. What the public gets by force is by it’s very nature inferior.