>> We're facing the issue in Ontario where firefighters are bored out of their minds and are being used as first responders for anything and everything. They show up to random fender benders.

> Is that because the firefighters are bored or because they want to show the public that they're doing something valuable before the public realizes that we don't need so many of them?

If they need to do that, it's not because of the public. It's probably because they got a "challenge" from some clever idiot with a business or economics degree.

Also, people typically want something valuable to do, so they go find it. That's not something the proponents of our coming AI utopia seem to understand.