This is an interesting point. I wonder if Artificial Intelligence has ever been applied to writing/composing music. (Boy George aside)
Already there is no driver in SOME train in some country. It is not a difficult work to make new train. Hugh saving in driver labour.
I could see France taking that Luddite approach. But then they would also have to stop trading with other countries as they would be at a significant disadvantage. The Amish will probably always exist. It's just that someday they might get smartphones.
Some folks at MIT have designed RNN's to compose music. http://web.mit.edu/felixsun/www/neural-music.html This article has a good step by step on how it works http://www.hexahedria.com/2015/08/03/composing-music-with-recurrent-neural-networks/ A youtube video is worth 1000 articles... so checkout the music ... this one's a bit noisy... this computer made jazz... There's a new type of networks called Generative Adversarial Networks which has proven quite good at "artistic" jobs... such as painting birds from text descriptions, or adding color to a B/W picture... We'll probably get some good music out of these networks in the near future.
Been there done that. Bad hands made playing difficult so I started writing fractal computer music. Some pieces would go on for hours or even days just gradually changing over time. The problem was with the sound. The last piece needed a fiddle sound and I spent many weeks trying to mimic the sound of a real fiddle and got very frustrated. Finally my girlfriend said why don't you just get a fiddle and play it yourself. And that's what I did. Then I went to the other extreme and ended up with a nylon string guitar for it's sound and really don't care anymore about bad hands or even fractal sequences. There are some things humans strive for that computers or machines can do effortlessly, but sometimes it's the striving that makes the music. And that is what I could not replicate on the machine.
On the whole, there is absolutely no real wealth in money, currency. Nada. Zilch. Void. It can be increased and destroyed by the push of a button or signature on paper, without ever directly touching any real wealths. Yet, that is the way we keep score, and we're losing.
I think it is good for people to have purpose in life and plenty to do. If machines force people just to stay at home with not much to do they will sicken and either fight or die gradually.