> since its completely removed the scarcity aspect of work that ppl were paid for
Is the post-scarcity in the room with us right now? Right now, the only things that AI is making non-scarce for regular people is making cheap toys and doing menial tasks. But it doesn't put food on the table or cash in their pockets. So where is all this free value from automating everything going to go? The same place it always has, right to the very top.
I could understand seeing this argument 5 years ago. But now we are literally living in this partially automated world, and regular people are not doing any better. And, as the author showed in the article with direct quotes and receipts, it's not like they were ever going to do that anyway. Today, clinging onto the utopian view that maybe we're going to have all that value given back to us any second now is delusional.