The notion that art requires the existence of poverty is another myth that needs to die. Billionaires still get broken hearts. No matter how much work is automated, unrequited love will always exist. If you believe art needs suffering, loss isn't extinguished by money & machines.

Ariana Grande does not suffer lack of resources. She isn't living in poverty. But she just broke records with "thank u, next" after suffering emotional loss. Her song connected with people on an emotional level due to the mass shared experience of breakups that will always exist.

Starving artists are a good thing? Robots toiling for us will remove our desire to create? These are absurdly wrong-headed notions as wrong as defending plantation slavery in the 1800s as being good for the black soul due to inherent laziness and need for motivation by white men.