That, and human population is still growing, meaning there are more and more humans who need jobs, yet as robots improve, the types of jobs left for humans get fewer. At some point, the lines will cross. Maybe it won't be soon, but if population keeps growing and robots keep being able to do more jobs, then eventually it will happen.
I just finished reading Bullshit Jobs. The author makes a good argument for the users that because we decided working is a moral good, we are also great at making up things for people to do.
For example: the ballooning of admin jobs in academia that add no benefit to services rendered other than keeping other useless admins busy.
According to the book, when you remove the bullshit jobs and bullshit work most of us already work 20 hour weeks or less.
> According to the book, when you remove the bullshit jobs and bullshit work most of us already work 20 hour weeks or less.
That wouldn't be a problem if the BS was more or less evenly distributed. But unfortunately the distribution is highly uneven, so eliminating the BS, even if you resolve to not cut paychecks, would leave quite a few folks entirely unemployed (so no paycheck at all), and quite a few more significantly underemployed (so at high risk of their employer consolidating three 5h/week jobs into one 15h/week job).
Keep the programmers and artists happy.
You can make a lot more and better AAA games if 50% of your time isn’t spent on life chores.