If we purport that human labor has no economic value, people being useless in their idleness has no bearing on the future. Also, the COVID pandemic was not peop

If we purport that human labor has no economic value, people being useless in their idleness has no bearing on the future. Also, the COVID pandemic was not people having free time, it was people being ordered to stay at home, many people being excluded from this due to being "essential workers", society doing damn near nothing to adjust to this state of affairs and thus keeping people in the "normal", stressful state of having to labor to live, and also in fear of a deadly disease, and often socially isolated and prevented from pursuing many of their interests. This seems like a poor comparison. If your experience of the global pandemic was just "I had a bunch more free time" it seems like you're already of the subset of the population experiencing something closer to the post-scarcity reality that all possible valuable human labor being cheaper to automate could be, and I assume you weren't doing crimes or whatever, right?