Seth probably isn't smart enough to know it, but he's repeating the argument of a guy who said that exact thing about a hundred and fifty years ago. Man needs to create a society in which only that work necessary to advance it need be done and the rest of the time spent in total human actualization. Man must not be a slave to work. He must overthrow those who are making him so and bring to fruition a new, fulfilling world free from oppression and exploitation.
The guy's name was Karl Marx.
Yeah, the trouble with all the socialists plan's, and those of some tied into the computer/info age too, is failure to recognize that somebody still has to hit a lick, and actually work.
The socialists, like the filthy rich, want that to be someone else, someone nameless, faceless, out-of-sight. Servants who don't speak up, or speak back.
Realistically, in the physical realm, if it's not; farmed, mined (including all oil and mineral extraction), logged, or fished, IT DOESN'T EXIST. All other manufacturing basically relies upon the first basic three, with the last one being mainly for food.
The eco-marxists won't be happy until we are all reduced to grubbing with our hands. But they'll still think we should be forced to share all the grubs and insects we have gathered...