Drivel
Oh really?
Mark Zuckerberg is on record as advocating for a universal minimum wage for exactly this reason - giving his Meta platform a huge installed base of idle , government funded metaverse gaming and social media economy customers.
If you doubt that AI is going to be the most empowering and enabling technology the world has seen to this point the you are simply ignorant of what AI is all about and what it can accomplish.
I recently duplicated what was a 24 month PhD thesis project by one of the brightest and most capable students ever in our program in just over a week using AI coding tools.
After that I wrote an iPad based machine vision inspection system with very nice user interface and data analysis dashboard for an aerospace application to complete FAA compliance standards in about the same amount of time all by myself - just for the fun of it. It works great and is an amazingly capable and easy to use system.
I would not be surprised if AI could enable a small team of talented and motivated people to put together a newer , better version of Facebook that would make Facebook the new myspace.
AI is going enable creative and innovative people to do amazing things. Some people are self motivated and directed but the gaming and social media culture is addicting and it kills peoples initiative because it enables them to lead idle, sponsored lifestyles.