If some mad gazillionaire decided to start paying people to hit their own thumbs with hammers, I'm sure she could find a price point where a lot of people decid

If some mad gazillionaire decided to start paying people to hit their own thumbs with hammers, I'm sure she could find a price point where a lot of people decided they wanted to do that. If she kept doing it for long enough, self-hammer-mangler might even become an honorable profession to which a lot of people aspired. That doesn't imply that we, as a society, want people to be spending their time and energy hitting themselves with hammers. As a society, we spent the last few centuries having the problem of providing a comfortable standard of living to ourselves and our peers and the problem of getting shitty drudgework done be two problems that largely solved each other. We are well on our way to actually solving the shitty drudgework problem. That means we badly need to find a new solution to the comfortable standard of living problem, but deciding not to fix the other, fixable problem doesn't sound like a viable long-term strategy.