I think the advice to do something beautiful / creative is good not only as economic advice, but as advice for the soul -- be maximally human, because the expansive definition of that is the last vestige of competitive advantage, but also the entire point of being alive. It's easy to forget that. At least, many of us find it alarmingly easy to forget.

I think that's been true on the macro view, for most of the reasons you say. It has not, as best I can determine, ever been true on the micro scale, e.g., the Luddites were not wrong that the introduction of machines would be the end of their ability to inhabit the world in the way they knew how to do. On net, it's been great, but that's little comfort to the people who have fallen off the edge of the world.

The job-centric view of things has always ground my gears; it's like some people believe there are these Platonic entities called "jobs" that everyone must have, and so the discussion fixates on the details about what will happen to them. A preferable view is that life is all a giant dance, and sometimes the circumstances change and then the nature of the dance changes, and now being a horse trainer is part of the dance, and now it isn't, and now being a guy who carries heavy things in a wheelbarrow is part of it, and one day that will probably stop, too. But through it all the challenge is simply to figure out how to dance in a way the local environment will reward.

I don't have a sense of what this will mean post-AI, but I think it may finally be different. Doing something beautiful seems like as good a strategy as any.