Gosh, I remember arguing the same thing about instrumentalists! "People will always want to listen to a live drummer and a horn section!"

I remember a day not that long ago that people made a good living just by hanging around the music buildings in the West 30s in Manhattan with a trombone or a sax, and would work almost every day doing jingles, or backing tracks.

Almost all replaced by samples now. Almost all those recording studios, gone - those buildings completely turned to other uses by 2000 or so.

I knew two Grammy winning drummers - one of them a legend on Broadway too, worked with Bob Fosse. Both of them ended up working in technology, because they were essentially replaced by the drum machine.

How will visual artists live if work that takes them hours to produce can be replaced by an infinite stream of automatically produced material?

It used to be, not very long ago, that you could make a living selling paintings to regular people for a fair price.

"Painter" was a job that regular people could have and get a regular living from, not a thing that a tiny number of media celebrities used to get millions out of the ultra-rich.

Painter, instrumentalist - these were creative, satisfying jobs, like journalism once was.

You have no idea what we had so you think we haven't lost anything.