>The issue is that our economic system is coercive. You need a job.
That's hardly the problem of the economic system, and more of a underlying problem with the the universe (ie. entropy and all).
That's hardly the problem of the economic system, and more of a underlying problem with the the universe (ie. entropy and all).
This is one thing that Karl Marx and Adam Smith agreed on: landlords are parasitic that reduce economic output. It's another way we're returning to a virtual aristocracy as land gets concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
This is all going to further fall apart once we don't need everyone to be employed. Arguably we're already there. What are the rest of the people meant to do? Starve and die? At some point you realize the only way forward is to collectively own the wealth you help create.
But going back to the original premise, everyone still has to work, even without landlords. The soviets even codified it as a crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_parasitism_(offense)
AI is being used to reduce the labor pool to suppress wages. You not only save on wages for laid off people but the remaining workers need their jobs and won't be asking for raises. They'll probably be doing extra unpaid work to boot.
If 20% of the workforce is no longer necessary, society as it stands now will collapse. That's the point.