The crutch of humanity that will make us servile is here.
Servile to what? Servile in what way?
How exactly do you expect an AI-run-everything to not immediately go bankrupt due to having 0 customer base from the lack of any employed people capable of paying them? The AIs will farm up food for 20 billion people and then everyone will starve because no one can afford it? Mansions will litter the landscape, outnumbering people 5 to 1, and all sitting empty?
Anyways, the core of your entire complaint is the broken window fallacy, plain and simple. It is the core of most anti-automation complaints. AI putting someone out of work by doing their job as well as they could at 1% of the cost is no different from a child putting a glasier out of work by not throwing a brick through a storefront window. The good and service is still provided, the things people want in life are still there, and there is one less person having to work for it: one more person who can go do something more fulfilling or creative or enjoyable or whatever.
The only thing that ends up missing is, of course, 1 job. That is the loose little hanging thread you want to tug on but don't quite know how. Society has never reached a point where there is active demand for jobs for the sake of jobs, nor would it be capable of doing so. The meme of ditch digging and ditch filling is a simple proof that jobs have 0 cost to create. Jobs that have a paycheck, of course, are a different issue. An issue I figure is still very, very far off.
Back to the topic at hand: Well, there isn't really any side to side with in my opinion. Neither the industry, unions, individuals, or any other involved entity is particularly relevant to me or capable of eliciting much sympathy from me. Most of them seem to be obsolete in one way or another. Century-old traditions of 'this is how it is done here' seems to be a very common tone throughout all of it, and I am beginning to suspect that the only reason there is so much money involved is because of all of the money involved. I think it would be a wonderful result if there never was any agreement whatsoever-- let all the unions permanently go on strike, all the union members on an individual level slowly realize they're happy with going to do some non-union gig for a reasonable employer under a pseudonym if it means they get to actually work in their field, production companies realize they're going to need to do some non-union productions with shell companies offering reasonable terms while they wait things out, and watch as things stay oddly reasonable across the board. It could kick off a whole new golden age of cinema where all the names in the credits are fake.
