Perhaps, we currently have double the productivity of several decades ago and yet people are working more not less. Its not universally true that we "have" to

Perhaps, we currently have double the productivity of several decades ago and yet people are working more not less. Its not universally true that we "have" to work to survive. There are alternate ways to structure a society so that everyone gets what they need to survive and people have more free time to invest in relationships, art, self expression, etc... The current system is not setup to permit that kind of personalization, instead its setup to exploit workers as much as possible. The explosion of AI is just the next step in the cycle. Eventually someone will build a fully autonomous humanoid robot that is capable of doing most of the manual tasks that humans are paid for. Those robots will be cheaper than paying someone a living wage and as such those jobs will be lost. What happens to those people when this happens?