If Life's For Livin' What's Livin' For?

It's fascinating that all I ever hear about AI doing is taking over artistic things like writing movies and poems, i.e. things people do because they absolutely love it and the rest of us get the incredible gifts of joy they give us. I never hear any talk of AI taking over studio exec jobs, or lawyers or anything that is corporate bullshit...yes, let's get rid of the world's poets but not project managers.

I wonder if we'll bungle the opportunity of AI like we did the technologies of the 40s/50s that were supposed to free housewives from having to do housework/chores all day. Instead of thinking "great, now that these women are free they'll have time to give us even MORE great art, or maybe one will come uo with the cure for cancer in her free time!" we sold them on the "dream" of entering the work force which pretty much went like:

-> now there's more people for men to hafta compete with, meaning their wages could go down -> now there's twice as many people miserable from commuting/working/dealing with bosses&bullshit -> most of the extra money being made gets eaten up by childcare anyway etc etc etc

All because of new technologies that were supposedly built to ease people's burdens, not increase them. Yet as more & more technology has presented itself to us, everybody seems to be working MORE and not less, and I'm *guessing* that it's only going to get a lot, lot worse. The more we create things to make things more freeing, the more we seem to viciously tie ourselves to the grind. 🤔🤷‍♂️