Argument: AI has a possibility of destroying everyone's jobs so they can no longer make a living and the world is extremely uncaring toward people with no income and so they will die penniless on the street and those that don't will be heavily exploited by the rich.

Counter-argument: But they can still sit around playing music if they want!

No, not if they're indentured servants. I'm not saying AI will destroy most jobs, but I am saying that if it does, the fact that we can still pursue our own creative desires independent of what the AI is doing is missing the point. We've created a world where an explosion of AI capabilities would allow the rich to no longer need the poor, and they will 100% exploit that. It's not AI's fault, it's the worship of the rich and the false equivalence that wealth == human value.

If someone is lamenting that there's now no chance they can make money by being a musician, telling them "whatever, just do what you love for free instead, and wait tables for 80 hours per week for an absolute pittance to make money" is not comforting.