Lots of reasons, perhaps your customers want it!
There might well be a market for human-made stuff if that remains fashionable, but it won't be a large enough market to provide mass employment. Artists and patrons, essentially.
Nope, that isn't the only possible exception at all. Automation doesn't necessarily replace people even, it can just make them more effective at their jobs, lots of automation can help with diagnostics in medicine for example but there is still room for a human practitioner to consult with a patient, there is still room for a nurse to look after a room of patients in hospital etc..
If automation partially replaces paid work (which is what "make them more effective at their jobs" means), that means fewer people are required to do the work. As I have repeatedly said, I am
not saying that there won't be
any paid work. I'm saying that there won't be enough paid work to sustain the current socioeconomic system, which requires a large majority of people to be doing a large amount of paid work.
It's not just artists who "create" - again who is going to make the decisions? Who is going to come up with new ideas? Who is going to manage the relationships at either a high level or a low level - whether that is relationships with customers or relationships between businesses.
Who is going to make legal arguments - are we letting some super AI rule over us here too? Or if we're not talking super AI then... well by default you've got legal work.
Same again - I'm not saying that there won't be
any paid work. Also...relationships with customers? Most business already try to do as little of that as possible and replace it with automation.
There is no basis for that claim though, so long as there is money and demand for people to do things then there will still be work.
Same again - I'm not saying that there won't be
any paid work.
I mean there is no need for cooking at home - I can get a ready meal from the supermarket... that process has been automated in the factory that creates those things I can just stick it in the microwave yet people cook stuff from scratch still...
Which isn't paid work unless they're employed as a personal cook for someone else. People cook from scratch for various reasons (because it's cheaper, because they perceive the food to be better, because they are in the habit of doing so, because they like cooking, whatever) but very few of them get paid for doing it.
sometimes they might order in a takeaway, sometimes they might go out to a restaurant and eat a meal - surely given we've got access to pre-prepared food that restaurant shouldn't exist? A restaurant is a very inefficient way of getting food into your body right?
What about those guys taking the food from the kitchen to the table - what's the point in them? Surely waiters shouldn't exist - restaurants could go for a McDonald's style ordering system instead? Yet the demand is there, people do those jobs in spite of automation - this notion that just because automation exists or efficient methods for getting something exist means that jobs will vanish isn't how things have worked out in reality.
It's true that there is still a fashion for having human servants. It's also still true that people are often cheaper and more versatile than automation. At the moment, both those things are true. But becoming increasingly less so.
